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Alex Crist
Alex Crist

Reputation: 1099

In Mercurial, a .txt file is always marked as modified. Why?

Quick question:

I use Mercurial for a long term Android project and it works great. In the root level of this project, I created a file, todo.txt, which contains long term goals for my project.

For some reason, whenever I type hg status into Terminal, Mercurial always marks this todo.txt with an M for modified even when no changes were made to the file.

Anybody have a possible explanation for this harmless but bizarre occurrence?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 48

Answers (1)

Mathiasdm
Mathiasdm

Reputation: 1831

Did you change the permissions on the file? Mercurial stores the executable bit for each file, it's possible that you changed that.

You cannot see this using the default settings, but you can if you do:

hg diff --git

The above uses the Git extended diff format.

You can also configure to use this format by default:

[diff]
git = True

Upvotes: 2

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