On Jul 21, 2011, at 20:31, Andy Canfield wrote: > I ran into a problem with a web site I am developing under Drupal; a problem > related to user. And I suspect that the same problem arises witn Subversion. > > On my local copy of that site, sometimes the PHP code creates a directory and > puts files into that directory. The directory had standard permissions - > readable by all but writable only by owner. But that directory is owned by > www-data because apache/PHP created the directory. > > But when I zip it up, upload it to the server in Hong Kong, and unzip it, all > directories are owned by the user on the server who unzipped the directory. > The permissions were preserved; still readable by all but writable only by > the owner. But the owner was no longer the Apache user, it was the user who > unzipped the directory. I had to invent two shell scripts; one to run on my > computer finding all the directories owned by Apache on my machine, and the > second run on the server making all those directories writable by all. > > I suspect that if I were using Subversion I would still have that problem. I > do not remember seeing anything in the manual about preserving directory and > file attributes, such as readable by all and writable by all. I do not > remember seeing anything in the manual about directory owners. I saw no > warning, I saw no assurance. > > But, then again, I haven't finished the second manual yet. Maybe that's > covered farther back in the book. > > So does Subversion preserve directory attributes?
No, Subversion does not store permissions or ownership.
