Your message dated Fri, 6 May 2011 22:01:37 +0000 (UTC)
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and subject line cvs and permissions
has caused the Debian Bug report #15516,
regarding cvs: cvs add does not preserve permissions of a directory
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Package: cvs
Version: 1.9.10+openbsd-1
My umask is 077 and I tried to cvs add a directory with permission 755. The
resulting directory in the repository had 700 as its permission.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux gondor 2.0.32 #3 Wed Nov 26 16:55:07 EST 1997 i486 unknown
Versions of the packages cvs depends on:
libc6 Version: 2.0.5c-0.1
zlib1 Version: 1:1.0.4-7.1
rcs Version: 5.7-4
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Hi,
cvs doesn’t preserve permissions on files, other than
their executable bit, and even that SHALL NOT be taken
for granted. Additionally, cvs only operates on files,
not directories.
So these are not bugs but design decisions.
bye,
//mirabilos
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