So I cloned a copy of a repo from my server onto my ubuntu laptop and
then when I went to open it I got an error saying that it was "unable
to open file foo.pdf for writing". So I went away and tried the same
thing on my OSX desktop and it worked fine. I then searched the error
message in the archives and found out it seemed to have to do with
permissions, and lo and behold, when I checked on the server the
permissions for foo.pdf were rwxrwxr-x where as for all the other
files they were rwxr-xr-x. I wasn't quite sure why this would matter,
but I changed foo.pdf to have the same permissions as everything else
(I also changed its name slightly so fossil would allow me to make a
commit). I then pulled this new version onto my laptop and tried
again, but that didn't seem to help, I still got the exact same error
for the same file.

Any ideas? And any thoughts on why it should matter whether I'm
opening the repo on ubuntu rather than OSX? Or why group write
permissions should matter?

Cheers,
Robin.

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http://robinshannon.net
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