Re: [Quilt-dev] Minor glitch: quilt does not preserve file permisions on 'quilt add'

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Monday 19 May 2003 09:43, Martin Quinson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I do a 'quilt add' of a chmod'ed 755 file, the new one gets the 644
> rights, which prevents me from executing the modified version of the
> script.
>
> Andreas, could you please have a look at this ?

Diff does not store file permissions in patches it creates, so if a patch 
creates a file, the file will always end up with default permissions. There's 
not much I can do about it. I don't think that adding a quilt specific hack 
that stores file permissions would be a good idea.

-- Andreas.