[cvsnt] Re: Retaining Executable permission when checked out with Linux client.

[Jake Hughes]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for the help!

By saying "I've fixed it" do you mean you've added the fix to an upcoming
release?

Sorry if I'm missing the obvious.

Jake


"Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote in message
news:c6cf13$533$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> Tony Hoyle wrote:
>
> > CVSNT will store the execute bit from a Linux commit, but the moment it
> > gets modified by a Windows machine it'll lose it again, as Windows has
> > no such thing as execute permissions.  If you limit those files to Linux
> > only you can get away with it (eg. the configure script in the cvsnt
> > source tree stays executable because I never open it in Windows).
> >
> OK on investigation it didn't work correctly (it works on checkout of a
new
> file but not on update)... I've now fixed it.
>
> Tony
>
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