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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:05:13 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>
Subject: RE: cvs via Cygwin (W98) to FAT to Linux - permissions
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Steve,

There's nothing wrong with wanting this outcome, but modifying the CVS 
command itself is almost certainly not the way to get it.

Much better would be to wrap CVS in a script that would perform the 
necessary actions required to achieve this effect. As a shell script, this 
wouldn't be particularly tough.

In fact, it reminds me of a program I wrote once, you gave it a list of 
file names and a command to invoke. It saved the modify and read times of 
the named files, ran the command and after it exited, restored the mod and 
read times on the files. Although that was a C program, if I was writing it 
today, I'd probably do it in BASH.

Be sure to take care with signal handling.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 19:34 2001-06-27, Steve Jorgensen wrote:
>...
>
>That brings me back to the more limited, but vastly simpler idea of adding
>a feature to cvs that allows producing a script of chmod commands during
>check-out that reflects the proper file permissions.  I might even attempt
>this myself after re-learning such things as how a make file works since I
>haven't done C programming in about 12 years now.


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