read-only attribut

[romaric rillet <ri...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have un file with the filesystem read-only attribut.
I commit this file with <svn commit test.cpp -m "">.
Since version 1.7, the filesystem read-only attribut is removed by the
commit operation.

I would like to keep this attribut ( like with version 1.6 ).

Thanks

Romaric

RE: read-only attribut

["Cooke, Mark" <ma...@siemens.com>]

> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:27:24PM +0200, romaric rillet wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have un file with the filesystem read-only attribut.
> > I commit this file with <svn commit test.cpp -m "">.
> > Since version 1.7, the filesystem read-only attribut is 
> > removed by the commit operation.
> > 
> > I would like to keep this attribut ( like with version 1.6 ).
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Sperling [mailto:stsp@elego.de] 
> Sent: 27 October 2011 10:15
> Subject: Re: read-only attribut
> 
> There is built-in support for keeping this attribute.
> But there are two ways to work around this limitation:
> 
> 1) Use the 'asvn' script instead of 'svn', see
>    
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/asvn
>    This script requires bash so you need cygwin to run it on windows.
> 
> 2) Set the svn:needs-lock property on the file. The file will
>    be marked read-only upon checkout. Running 'svn lock' on the
>    file will make it writable, and after commit the file will
>    be read-only again.

Question: why would svn fiddle with this anyway?  I would not expect svn to change local attributes at all (unless svn:needs-lock is set, of course).

~ mark c

Re: read-only attribut

[Stefan Sperling <st...@elego.de>]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:27:24PM +0200, romaric rillet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have un file with the filesystem read-only attribut.
> I commit this file with <svn commit test.cpp -m "">.
> Since version 1.7, the filesystem read-only attribut is removed by the
> commit operation.
> 
> I would like to keep this attribut ( like with version 1.6 ).

There is built-in support for keeping this attribute.
But there are two ways to work around this limitation:

1) Use the 'asvn' script instead of 'svn', see
   https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/asvn
   This script requires bash so you need cygwin to run it on windows.

2) Set the svn:needs-lock property on the file. The file will be marked
   read-only upon checkout. Running 'svn lock' on the file will make it
   writable, and after commit the file will be read-only again.