Marc Aurele La France wrote (in a message from Wednesday 21)
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, David Dawes wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 04:46:25PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
>
> > >There are a lot of source files that have wrong exec bits set in the
> > >repository. Although this is not a problem for most of cases, it bothers
> > >me (and possibly other subversion users as well) quite a lot when I
> > >import xc into the subversion repository since subversion keeps track
> > >of metadata changes as well as file content changes. Could anybody deal
> > >with that? Those file include extras/ogl-sample/../*.{c,cc,h,gl},
> > >Imakefile, GNUmakefile, Distfile, and etc.
>
> > I'll take a look at it.
>
> The problem with this is that the permissions might be reset the next time
> something is committed to the affected files. So, all committers would
> need to re-checkout after the permission changes are made, or change the
> permissions in their own copy.
>
Once we've make sure that nothing in the build process depends on
checked-out file being executable (ie shell scrips are executed as 'sh
script' by make), we can add a pre-commit check to avoid making such
mistakes in the future, and manually fix the modes in the repository.
Matthieu
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