Re: Modify administrative files upon commit

[Matt Riechers]

Stefano Costa wrote:
> 
> Dear readers of this list,
> 
> I have this problem: I'm using a few scripts (perl mainly) that are called 
> before commit (specified
> inside commitinfo) and I'd like to maintain these scripts along with the 
> other CVSROOT
> administrative files. So I added their names to checkoutlist and they are 
> correctly checkout after
> commit into $CVSROOT/CVSROOT. But I didn't find a way to modify their 
> attributes so that they
> are set executable *after* having been checkout, any idea?

The files should have been executable when you commited them. IIRC, once
a file has been commited the permissions are frozen, so trying to commit
a new revision as executable won't work. One way to fix this is to
manually set the permissions on the ,v file in the repository itself.

-Matt