Re: Why does svn up give me a different file than in the repo

On 2019-03-07 17:50:26 +0100, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 07.03.2019 17:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2019-03-07 05:26:48 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> >> I had this problem once when I ran a recursive sed command over my
> >> working copy, not considering that it would modify the contents of
> >> the .svn directory too.
> > Would it be a good idea to protect the .svn directory by default?
> > I mean that Subversion would unprotect it before an operation and
> > protect it again just after.
>
> How would you do that, realistically? I can't think of any way other
> than changing permissions on all files within that directory.

Unsetting the 'r' permission on the .svn directory should be
sufficient: recursive operations would not be able to open this
directory for reading.

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