How to fix file permission in CVS?

Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen eirik@opera.com
Fri Feb 26 13:09:00 GMT 2010


"Doug Kwan (關振德)" <dougkwan@google.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>     I checked in a shell script in src/gold/testsuite but forgot the
> set the execution permission.  Now the file is checked out as a
> non-executable shell script.  What is a good way to fix it?  Thanks.
>
> -Doug

If I remember correctly, CVS stores the executable bit for files by
setting the executable bit on the ,v file on the server.  So I think the
only way to fix this is to log on to the CVS server itself and chmod +x
the correct ,v file in the repository.

eirik



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