Documentation of fileMode could be improved to avoid user trip hazard
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Key: MASSEMBLY-229
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-229
Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
Issue Type: Improvement
Environment: n/a
Reporter: Kelvin Goodson
Priority: Minor
The website documentation for the fileMode parameter that occurs in a number of
places in the assembly descriptor format description such as [1] does show a
leading 0 for its values, but it isn't clear that this is to declare the value
as octal. Anyone who is used to using the chmod command on *nix doesn't expect
to have to prefix the octal value with a 0, and therefore might assume the 0
to be an insignificant digit. It would be helpful to add a comment in the
descriptions of these parameters that the value is interpreted as decimal
unless preceded by a leading 0 to indicate an octal value.
[1]
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly.html#class_file
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