I can reproduce this with trunk. Mark Eichin wrote on Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 17:54:57 -0400: > Ran across this while writing a "populate new repo" script, that used > svn cp to copy a set of svn-hooks in place (by definition from one > repo to another.) What happens is that when a file in the source repo > (called "foreign" here) has svn:executable set, the working dir in the > destination (called "local" here) looks right - ls -l shows the +x > bits, svn proplist -v shows the property, even .svn/props-base > mentions it. The commit, on the other hand, doesn't push it to the > repository. This means that the local checkout is now a "persistent > lie" (in that trying to set it there and commit it does nothing, > because it's "already" set.)
So, it's definitely a bug *somewhere*. > svn co $LOCAL_REPO/branch $PERFORM_COPY_WORKDIR/branch > svn copy $FOREIGN_REPO/trunk/program > $PERFORM_COPY_WORKDIR/branch/copied-program Is this documented to work?