Re: Permissions on checked out files

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 15:14:20 (-0500), Datla, Raghav wrote: ]
> Subject: Permissions on checked out files
>
>    I am using pserver method from Unix client to access the repository on
> Unix server (AIX).
> when I check out the directories/files, I am getting 755 permissions on
> checked out directories/files. How can I get 775 permissions, after checking
> out. I tried CVSUMASK setting on the client machine,  but did't help me.
> Any other advise are welcome.

Since checked out files are supposed to be private to the developer who
checked them out, any setting of group-write permission is not desirable.

If you really need to create a group-writable working directory I would
suggest doing so with some sort of process manually activated after
you've done a checkout our update.

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