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Re: cvs chmod ?
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: cvs chmod ? |
Date: |
Thu, 9 May 2002 12:15:47 -0400 (EDT) |
Lee Sau Dan writes:
>
> This won't work. The reason is simple. CVS doesn't care about the
> file permissions in its repository. Files stored in CVS are not
> stored with the permission setting. This is well documented in the
> CVS manual. So, RTFM.
That's not quite true -- CVS uses the execute permissions of the file in
the repository to determine the execute permissions of the checked out
file. Note, however, that the execute permissions of the file in the
repository is set when it is first created and never modified later.
-Larry Jones
It COULD'VE happened by accident! -- Calvin