OS permission oddity when doing svn propset, commit, merge

Greetings!

I am seeing an oddity using svn propset, commit, merge.

1:branch$ svn propset svn:executable on file

2:branch$ ls file

# I see the file now has +x set on it

3:branch$ svn commit

10:trunk$ svn merge -r old:latest $BRANCHURL

11:trunk$ ls file

# The file is the original -x

12:trunk$ svn diff file

# Tells me property change

13:trunk$ rm file

14:trunk$ svn update

15:trunk$ ls file

# I see the file now has +x set

My question is, shouldn't 10 cause the WC in ./trunk/file to get the
executable bit?

-Patrick

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Received on Fri Feb 3 23:01:32 2006