[Ilugc] File permission issue in CVS.
- From: mssnlayam@xxxxxxxx (Suriya Narayanan M S)
- Date: Thu Sep 2 19:03:48 2004
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:06:16PM +0530, Praveen wrote:
I have checked in (newly) a perl file into a CVS module. I forgot
to turn on the execute flag for that file. Now I want to change the
file permission of that perl file to have execute permission for all
users. How can I achieve this?
From the CVS info pages
<quote>
15 Special Files
****************
In normal circumstances, CVS works only with regular files. Every file
in a project is assumed to be persistent; it must be possible to open,
read and close them; and so on. CVS also ignores file permissions and
ownerships, leaving such issues to be resolved by the developer at
installation time. In other words, it is not possible to "check in" a
device into a repository; if the device file cannot be opened, CVS will
refuse to handle it. Files also lose their ownerships and permissions
during repository transactions.
</quote>
Suriya
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