Re: Should svnserve set umask to 002?

Nathan Sharp wrote:

> When you svnadmin
> create, have options right on the tool for setting it up in "group"
> mode, have it report out a message on where to get information about
> sharing the repository right as the repository is created. When you
> install the tool, have it automatically install a svng form of every
> command which is the umask trick. </warning>

I actually produced a patch which set the group/owner modes when using svnadmin:

        http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1541

but it was not applied for many reasons (not just cross-platform issues).
Here's the final thrashing of the discussion:

        http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2003-11/1289.shtml

which I largely have come to agree with. It would be nice to provide a canned
way to handle exactly this behavior, but it is not trivial to do in the
executables themselves...

John

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