[jira] Updated: (MASSEMBLY-229) Documentation of fileMode could be improved to avoid user trip hazard

["John Casey (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-229?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

John Casey updated MASSEMBLY-229:
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    Fix Version/s: 2.2

> Documentation of fileMode could be improved to avoid user trip hazard
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>                 Key: MASSEMBLY-229
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-229
>             Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>         Environment: n/a
>            Reporter: Kelvin Goodson
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.2
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> The website documentation for the fileMode parameter that occurs in a number of places in the assembly descriptor format description such as [1] does show a leading 0 for its values,  but it isn't clear that this is to declare the value as octal.  Anyone who is used to using the chmod command on *nix doesn't expect  to have to prefix the octal value with a 0, and therefore might assume the 0 to be an insignificant digit.  It would be helpful to add a comment in the descriptions of these parameters that the value is interpreted as decimal unless preceded by a leading 0 to indicate an octal value.
> [1] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly.html#class_file

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