Re: CVS and permissions (Unix)

[Andrew Johnson]

Mullican, Catherine wrote:
> Some files were checked in with the permissions set to 644.  They need to be
> 755.  I tried changing the permissions, making some whitespace changes, and
> checking the files back in, but they're still 644 on checkout.  Other files
> in the project have the correct permissions on checkout; this only affects
> two directories.  How can I fix them?

You need to do a chmod +x on the ,v files in the repository itself.  Easy 
to do if it's directly accessible, harder if remote, but I'm not aware of 
any other way to do this.  CVS doesn't version file permissions, just 
copies them from the repository file.

- Andrew
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