On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:09:04PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: | On 09/12/02 Derrick 'dman' Hudson did speaketh: | | > Ok, what is the right way to set up a CVS repository? | > | > The problem is that new files created with 'cvs add ; cvs com' are not | > group writable. They need to be group writable so other developers in | > the group can modify them later. If I manually set the writable bit | > then everything is fine. (manually means logging on to the server | > with the repository and running 'chmod' on the ,v file) How can I | > make the file be group writable without the need for manual | > intervention? | | Try setting your CVS_UMASK environment variable appropriately.
Thanks for the direction. It's actually CVSUMASK, and it doesn't achieve what I thought I wanted. cvs doesn't set the group-write bit in the first place, and a umask can only clear bits. However, after a bit more searching and reading and testing it seems that the ,v files /don't/ need to be group-writable; just the directory they are in does. (this experimenting was all with the 'cvs' command on my own debian system) I don't know why, but at school (RH 7.x server) my group and I had these permissions problems. Only the person who added the file could modify (and commit) it afterwards. Setting the file to group-writable solved that issue. I was using 'cvs' on the RH box, the others were using TortoiseCVS on the win2k workstations. The "real" test will come at work tomorrow. My boss is trying to set up cvs on an OSX system so we can use it instead of MS VSS on an NT4 server. (I will be maintaining my debian client, but cvs will be a nice improvement over Source Off-Site) Thanks. -D -- "...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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