Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:30:54 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, krentel@dreamscape.com Subject: Re: file modes in CVS repository Message-ID: <XFMail.981215163054.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <22760.913768017@gjp.erols.com>
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>> The policy, if there is one, is two-fold. Committers should take
>> care to set the permissions right before they first import a
>> script. Makefiles must be written to ensure that things will still
>> work if the permissions are wrong in the repository.
>
> I think the FreeBSD project also cheats to a certain extent that we
> have clean-up scripts that run periodically out of cron and run a
> find across the repository and ``tidy up'' any bogus permissions. I
> dunno if they are still in place, but they were the last time I
> looked (many moons ago)
That's true, but I think you're missing some context. The original
question concerned shell scripts, and whether the execute bits should
be set in the repository files. The clean-up script doesn't mess with
that. It just makes sure all the files are readable by everybody.
John
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