Re: Strange permissions of files in cvs repository

[Eric Meijer]

Larry Jones wrote:
> Eric Meijer writes:
> > I have a cvs repository (version 1.12.13) on my debian linux box, since 
> > quite a while.  At some point, files got strange permissions.  Certain 
> > source files (C++ .cc and .h files) have executable bits or sticky bits 
> > set, while others don't:
> [...]
> > Do those permissions 
> > mean anything to the repository?
>
> Only sort-of: CVS sets the execute bits on a newly-created repository
> file from the working file and copies the execute bits from the
> repository file to the working file on checkout.
>
> > Can I just do
> >
> > find . -type f -exec chmod 444 \{\} \;
> >
> > on the repository and be done with it?
>
> As long as you don't have any files in the repository that really should
> be marked executable, that's fine.
There were a few, but they are all in the scripts directory.
It appeared to work, I changed the directory permissions to 755.

Thanks,
Eric