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Date:      Thu, 28 Dec 2023 12:40:36 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs question
Message-ID:  <44h6k2p6nf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <18F215F5-82A4-40E5-85E9-F753CEB04B56@sermon-archive.info> (Doug Hardie's message of "Wed, 27 Dec 2023 17:01:18 -0800")
References:  <18F215F5-82A4-40E5-85E9-F753CEB04B56@sermon-archive.info>

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Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> writes:

> I am using CVS from the packages.  Lately, every time I run it, I get the following message:
>
> warning: this CVS does not support PreservePermissions
>
> How do I get it to either drop the message, or actually preserve permissions?

In the CVSROOT/config file, set "PreservePermissions=no" (which I
thought was the default anyway). Permissions were always a bit wonky in
CVS at best, and hard links even more so.



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