Re: Strange permissions of files in cvs repository

[Eric Meijer]

Larry Jones wrote:
> Eric Meijer writes:
> > It appeared to work, I changed the directory permissions to 755.
>
> Depending on the platform and your security model, you may need the SGID
> bit set on the directories to get newly-created files to inherit their
> group id from the parent directory instead of getting it from the
> current user.

You are right, I didn't notice because I am the only user :-)
Now I have the directories at permissions 2775.
What still bugs me is that I have no clue how the permissions got 
garbled the way they did.

Kind regards,
Eric Meijer