How to fix file permission in CVS?

Doug Kwan (關振德) dougkwan@google.com
Fri Feb 26 17:14:00 GMT 2010


The name of the file is not important.  I can remove the file and add
it with another name and with the correct permission.  Of course, I
will need to rename all uses of the file but that's fine.   Will that
work with git?

-Doug

2010/2/26 Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>:
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
>
>> you can also abuse the system by removing the file, committing the
>> removal, then re-adding the file with the +x bits set.
>
> That doesn't work.  When the file is committed the x bit is taken from
> the file in the Attic.
>
> Andreas.
>
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