On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:43:13AM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
>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.
Nothing in our build process should depend on this. If something does,
that part of the build process needs to be fixed.
David
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