Mike Pritchard wrote:
>> 
>> Note, if you would have just _run_ the program with a umask of 2
>> then it would have worked too.  It honors the umask setting unless
>> overridden in the supfile.
> 
> Yes, but if I ever run cvsup by hand I wind up with cvsup
> going through my whole tree and resetting attributes because
> my default umask isn't 2.  I once started up a cvsup by hand, sat
> down to eat/watch TV, came back and realized that cvsup had reset
> all of my file permissions.

That just shows that watching TV is _bad_. ;-)

> Putting it in the cvsup file help to make sure you don't screw
> yourself up by accident.

Yep -- that's why I added the feature.

John


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