RE: Help Required

[Amit Sharma]

        We are able to checkout the files with its permissions preserved
with MACCVSX version (octopus iconed version of MacCVS) apart it fails to
get file names with special character(Error: invalid argument,Internal
error: cvs_hqx.cpp, 635: Unknown error: 4294967248). With older versions of
CVS we are able to checkout the files with special character without any
error but permissions does not remain preserved.

Please help


Regards,
AMit Sharma



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Amit Sharma writes:
> 
>       On MAC OS X if we check in a binary file(Apple script executable) in
> CVS.and then remove the file from our local HDD.If we get the same
> executable  from CVS again and try to run it IT DOESN NOT WORK.since it
does
> not have execute permission flag on. Does it Mean CVS does not preseve the
> permissions. 

No.  When CVS creates a new file in the repository (the very first time
you commit), it sets the repository file's execute permissions to match
the working file's execute permissions.  When you check a file out, CVS
copies the execute permissions from the repository file to the working
file.  So, if it's not working, then either the file wasn't executable
the very first time you committed it or there's something wrong with
CVS's OS X support.  Check the permissions on the repository file -- if
it isn't executable, try making it executable and then checking it out. 

-Larry Jones

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere
in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. -- Calvin