Your message dated Fri, 6 May 2011 22:01:37 +0000 (UTC)
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and subject line cvs and permissions
has caused the Debian Bug report #10448,
regarding cvs: committing sometimes makes 644 files 600
to be marked as done.
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Package: cvs
Version: 1.9-4
Committing may turn 644 files to 600 files even though the corresponding file
in the repository is 444 and both the parent directory and the parent directory
in the repositry are 755.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux greathan 2.1.42 #1 Sat Jun 7 16:09:21 EST 1997 i586
unknown
Versions of the packages cvs depends on:
libc5 Version: 5.4.23-4
rcs Version: 5.7-4
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Hi,
cvs doesn’t preserve permissions on files, other than
their executable bit, and even that SHALL NOT be taken
for granted. Additionally, cvs only operates on files,
not directories.
So these are not bugs but design decisions.
bye,
//mirabilos
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when he’s near Tom Riddle (aka Voldemort),
does Tom get pain in the arse when Harry is near him?
-- me, wondering why it’s not Jerry Potter………
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