<div class="markdown_content"><p>As I read this, I believe the OP is <em>not</em> suggesting that Subversion behaves any differently than the book describes, but rather that the text misrepresents NTFS as not having a notion of an executable permission bit. Unfortunately, the proposed fix causes a <em>different</em> confusion by allowing an NTFS-knowledgeable person to assume that Subversion will set that bit on NTFS (which, of course, it does not).</p>
<p>Perhaps the text could be changed to read instead:</p>
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<p>This property has no effect on Windows or on filesystems that have no concept of an executable permission bit (such as FAT32).</p>
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<p>?</p>
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<p><strong> <a class="alink" href="https://sourceforge.net/p/svnbook/tickets/187/">[tickets:#187]</a> svn:executable property on Windows filesystems does have an effect</strong></p>
<p><strong>Status:</strong> New<br/>
<strong>Milestone:</strong> whenever<br/>
<strong>Created:</strong> Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:49 AM UTC by Anonymous<br/>
<strong>Last Updated:</strong> Thu Dec 23, 2021 04:17 PM UTC<br/>
<strong>Owner:</strong> nobody</p>
<p><em>Originally created by:</em> <a class="" href="http://code.google.com/u/109856940282443811731/" rel="nofollow">spt5...</a><a class="user-mention" href="https://sourceforge.net/u/gmail/"></a><a class="user-mention" href="https://sourceforge.net/u/gmail/">@gmail</a>.com</p>
<p>See Advanced Topics->File Portability->File Executability</p>
<p>This property has no effect on filesystems that have no concept of an executable permission bit, such as FAT32 and NTFS.[17]</p>
<p>There is, indeed, a notion of executable permission bit on NTFS. I found this out the hard way. I suggest the following rewording:</p>
<p>This property has no effect on filesystems that have no concept of an executable permission bit, such as FAT32.[17]</p>
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