Re: reverting changes to svn-base files

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> wrote:

> The .svn/text-base/ files are read-only files for exactly this reason.
> How is it that your command successfully edits them?

Ben, making the files read-only is not enough to prevent them from being
changed. You must also make the containing directory read-only.

For a thorough explanation of this issue, and why perl is right in
succeeding to change the read-only files, see
<http://www.cpan.org/misc/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz>; in there, read the file
"file-dir-perms".

Jonathan: what I don't understand is how you managed to change files in
.svn/ with the command

  find . -type f -name \*.pm | xargs perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g'

This shouldn't be possible, the files in .svn don't match the pattern
*.pm (they end with .svnbase or .svnwork).

-- 
Stefan Haller
Ableton
http://www.ableton.com/
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