Re: RCS: Preserving group ownership

[Mark D. Baushke]

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address@hidden writes:

> I want to be able to use RCS with files such that when I check out the
> file, the group ownership is preserved.
> 
> That is, I want owner = root, group owner = www.  But whenever I co,
> group owner reverts to root.  That's even if I chgrp www on the *,v
> file.

In many filesystems, the default group of a new file may be defaulted to
the current directory group by setting the set-gid bit on the directory.

You do not specify which operating system or filesystem you are using
for your repository, so further advice is not really possible.

        -- Mark
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