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[Subclipse-users] Re: Files are executable at checkout

From: Hendrik Maryns <qwizv9b02_at_sneakemail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:01:32 +0200

Konstantin Kolinko schreef:
> 2008/9/17 Hendrik Maryns <qwizv9b02_at_sneakemail.com>:
>> Mark Phippard schreef:
>>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Hendrik Maryns
>>> <qwizv9b02_at_sneakemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am bothered by a problem I have been having for a while now. I have
>>>> some TeX projects containing .tex, .pdf and other image files. They
>>>> have been checked in with Subclipse from a Linux desktop. Somehow, the
>>>> files are now marked as executable, since when I check them out on
>>>> another Linux, they are. They are not in the original project, however.
>>>> I have no idea how this change cam into being and cannot really
>>>> reproduce it, since e.g. my latest project doesn't suffer from this.
>>>> Anyway, I'd like to make the files in the projects that have this
>>>> problem non-executable again. Changing the permissions does not give
>>>> any change in the Synchronizing perspective. Is there a way to get this
>>>> done? If not in Subclipse, then maybe from the command line?
>>> Look at the SVN Properties on one of these items and see if the
>>> svn:executable property it set. If it is, then SVN will set the
>>> executable property on the file.
>> Some of them had svn:executable set to *, indeed. But how could this
>> be, since I have never set it myself explicitly? Others have the
>> property svn:special, could this have the same effect?
>>
>
> See
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.props.html#svn.advanced.props.auto
>
> "Subversion will automatically set the svn:executable property on newly
> added or imported files whose execute bit is enabled."

I suppose this must have come because they were changed on Windows or
something. Or maybe I made them executable once as a mistake. Anyway,
I know how to remedy now, thanks.

And oh yes: svn:special is because the file is a symbolic link.

Cheers, H.

-- 
Hendrik Maryns
http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~hendrik/
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