Hi, we noticed that fileattr files in our repository got emptied, when we tried to do a "cvs edit". cvs claimed that it was unable to write to the file, leaving us with a fileattr with length zero. (Access to the repo was made via ssh.)
The problem was caused by the fact that we (when copying our repo from one server to another) lost our file permissions. We had a quick check with another existing repo on the new server and decided to simply set all files and dirs with the "set group id" attribute (this included of course also the fileattr files). The sgid is necessary for folders only, as we know now, but it does no harm if set for normal files in the repo. BUT, it is fatal for the fileattr's. Somehow cvs doesn't like the sgid on them and decides to fail when trying to write to them if you have set watch on and try to "cvs edit" on a file. Marko version: cvs 1.12.12 _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
