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"Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote in message news:bvmfsn$7qk$1 at sisko.local.nodomain.org... > bbq jo wrote: > > hello, > > > > I managed to set up a Windows 2000 box with cvsnt 2.0.24 and to import from > > a Linux box the sources we needed. However, when checking out, script files > > were loosing their execute flag. Same thing happens with a simple 'cvs add' > > of a script file: command succeeds but I am left with a file having lost its > > execute flag. > > The old CVS used to store the executable flag on the file itself. NT > has no such flag, so it loses all that information - this is > unfortunately unavoidable. > > If you set the flag under Linux and commit a new revision CVSNT stores > this information in the RCS file so it'll keep it (at least until > someone commits from an NT machine). I see. Thank you very much for your input. Regards.