Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 13:23:28 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, billf@jade.chc-chimes.com Subject: Re: cvs Message-ID: <XFMail.990808132328.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199908081935.OAA04278@mpp.pro-ns.net>
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Mike Pritchard wrote: >> >> Note, if you would have just _run_ the program with a umask of 2 >> then it would have worked too. It honors the umask setting unless >> overridden in the supfile. > > Yes, but if I ever run cvsup by hand I wind up with cvsup > going through my whole tree and resetting attributes because > my default umask isn't 2. I once started up a cvsup by hand, sat > down to eat/watch TV, came back and realized that cvsup had reset > all of my file permissions. That just shows that watching TV is _bad_. ;-) > Putting it in the cvsup file help to make sure you don't screw > yourself up by accident. Yep -- that's why I added the feature. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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