[cvsnt] Re: Retaining Executable permission when checked out with Linux client.

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Sat Apr 24 01:58:32 BST 2004


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Tony Hoyle wrote:

> CVSNT will store the execute bit from a Linux commit, but the moment it 
> gets modified by a Windows machine it'll lose it again, as Windows has 
> no such thing as execute permissions.  If you limit those files to Linux 
> only you can get away with it (eg. the configure script in the cvsnt 
> source tree stays executable because I never open it in Windows).
> 
OK on investigation it didn't work correctly (it works on checkout of a new 
file but not on update)... I've now fixed it.

Tony

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