Re: [Gnu-arch-users] sgid bit ignored on patch creation

[Andrew Suffield]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 03:07:29PM -0500, Robert Anderson wrote:
> I posted this problem awhile back and got no response.  I'll try
> again:
> 
> Here is a version directory in one of my archives:
> 
> drwxrws---   49 rwa      mygroup       4.0K 2004-05-20 11:58
> cat--branch--1.0
> 
> (names changed to protect the guilty.)
> 
> Notice the "s" in the group permissions.  My understanding is
> that this forces dir and file creation within this directory to
> inherit the group of this directory, i.e., mygroup. (Is that
> correct?)
> 
> When I commit patches to this archive in the normal way, I get:
> 
> cd cat--branch--1.0
> ls -l
> ...
> drwxrwx---    2 rwa      mygroup       4.0K 2004-05-20 11:50
> patch-44/
> drwxrwx---    2 rwa      rwa          4.0K 2004-05-20 11:58 patch-45/
> drwxrwx---    3 rwa      rwa          4.0K 2004-05-20 11:58 patch-46/
> 
> I just committed patch-45 and patch-46.  They have my usual
> default group, and not the group of the parent directory.
> 
> If I now do:
> 
> mkdir newdir
> 
> It comes up as:
> 
> drwxrws---    2 rwa      mygroup       4096 2004-05-20 12:04 newdir/
> 
> i.e, with the expected group.
> 
> What is going on here and how do I fix it?

The next changeset directory is the +contents directory in
++revision-lock, iirc; nothing is created at the level you're looking
at. chgrp those two and set their setgid bits.

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