subversion do not save filesystem permission... (fwd)

[Roger Jorgensen <ro...@nhn.no>]

anyone that have any idea howto fix this?


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Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 15:21:59 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roger Jorgensen <ro...@nhn.no>
To: sussman@collab.net
Cc: Roger Jorgensen <ro...@nhn.no>
Subject: subversion do not safe filesystem permission...

i,

Bellow it s post taken from http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-04/0444.shtml 
where you say you have a script to preserv filepermission when you check files 
out of SubVersion. It would have solved one problem I have atleast where we use 
subversion to store alot of config files... but it cause issued since 
subversion don't preserv the original permissions.



From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-04-08 02:09:24 CEST

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 18:31, Steve Wray wrote:

>   "Filesystem properties: each file or directory has an invisible hash
>   table attached. You can invent and store any arbitrary key/value pairs
>   you wish: owner, perms, icons, app-owner, MIME type, personal notes,
>   etc. This is a general-purpose feature for users. Properties are
>   versioned, just like file contents."

These are examples of names of properties that you *could* invent for
yourself.

Subversion doesn't preserve permissions or ownership information; it
simply provides a generic metadata mechanism for users to exploit
however they wish.

Ben Reser, I believe, has written a script to do what you're looking
for: when you run it, it "stores" filesystem metadata in the properties
before committing, and also has the ability to read the metadata and
apply it to the files again.

>   I've tested this with file permissions as well; the only thing I've been
>   able to find is preserving executable perms.

Correct. The svn:executable property makes a file executable. It's the
only sort of permission that svn can understand, because permissions are
inherently un-portable from one OS to another.

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