Re: How to control file group on commit?

[Andrew Johnson]

Matt Olson wrote:
> We're trying to change the file's group after a commit.  We've tried a
> call to chgrp (actually, a wrapper script around chgrp) in commitinfo, in
> loginfo (via %s expansion), and with -i in modules.  None works.  I've
> looked through Cederkvist and the Coriolis book, with no success.
>
> Is this even the right approach?  Is there another way to specify file
> ownerships of the version files in the repository?

This is the wrong approach, as you seem to have guessed.  Read up about 
the set-group-id (sgid) filesystem permission bit on directories.

Basically you need to to a 'chmod g+s' on all of the *directories* in the 
repository that you'll need for the project, making sure that you've fixed 
the group ownership of any dirs that are wrong at the same time.  That 
will fix the CVS commit problem.

- Andrew
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