[cvsnt] Checked out files UNIX permissions

[Matt Schuckmann]

Richard Wirth wrote:
> Hello Matt,
> 
> Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 2:06:14 AM, you wrote:
> 
> MS> We recently upgraded our CVS server from an older version of GNU CVS (I
> MS> can't remember the exact version right now) to CVSNT 2.5.03 (Scorpio) 
> MS> Build 2382.
> 
> MS> We just noticed that the execute permissions for our script files are no
> MS> longer being set properly when we checkout a fresh sandbox on a Linux 
> MS> system (not sure which client).
> 
> Normaly the CVSNT server should even work correctly under this
> circumstances.
> The permissions are stored within the rcs files and are versioned also
> as any other change to the source.
> Looking at the ,v-files you will find a line like:
> 
> 'permissions  666;'
> 
> In older version of cvs, the permissions are stored as file
> permissions of the rcs files.
> If one migrates to cvsnt, and the new server does not find permissions
> in the respective rcs file, the permissions are taken from the rcs
> file permissions (like old cvs does). On any commit, the permissions
> are put into the rcs-file.
> 
> So if your migration has lost the permissions, it may be they are
> alredy lost, when moving the repository to the new location?
> 
> But anyway, you can restore the permissions by setting it in your
> sandbox and commiting the changes (may be with a -f if nothing else
> has changed).
> 
> 

Thanks Richard that sounds pretty much like what someone else here 
figured out last night.

Matt S.