How to fix file permission in CVS?

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Fri Mar 5 18:33:00 GMT 2010


On Friday 05 March 2010 12:17:19 Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Mike Frysinger writes:
> > On Friday 26 February 2010 10:08:04 Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >> Mike Frysinger 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.
> > 
> > are you sure ?
> 
> I've tested it.
> 
> >  ive used this trick many times and havent seen this behavior.
> 
> Perhaps there is a difference in behaviour between local and remote
> repos.

so you've tested local repos and see +x preserved.  ive used this trick on a 
few remove cvs servers but never locally (since local cvs is largely useless).
-mike
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