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

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Monday 19 May 2003 10:25, Martin Quinson wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:12:40AM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > 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.
>
> No, I meant that when I do a 'quilt add', the original file is moved to
> .pc, and a new copy is placed in the original directory. If the original
> files were executable, the new created one is not.

Okay, I see what you mean. Should be fixed with the last check-in. Could you 
please verify that?

Thanks,
Andreas.