> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:27:24PM +0200, romaric rillet wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have un file with the filesystem read-only attribut. > > I commit this file with <svn commit test.cpp -m "">. > > Since version 1.7, the filesystem read-only attribut is > > removed by the commit operation. > > > > I would like to keep this attribut ( like with version 1.6 ). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Sperling [mailto:s...@elego.de] > Sent: 27 October 2011 10:15 > Subject: Re: read-only attribut > > There is built-in support for keeping this attribute. > But there are two ways to work around this limitation: > > 1) Use the 'asvn' script instead of 'svn', see > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/asvn > This script requires bash so you need cygwin to run it on windows. > > 2) Set the svn:needs-lock property on the file. The file will > be marked read-only upon checkout. Running 'svn lock' on the > file will make it writable, and after commit the file will > be read-only again.
Question: why would svn fiddle with this anyway? I would not expect svn to change local attributes at all (unless svn:needs-lock is set, of course). ~ mark c
