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Re: Checked out files become read-only

From: Rob Brown <rob.brown_at_whispertech.co.nz>
Date: 2006-04-19 00:42:05 CEST

> Have you by any chance also installed SVNSCC (a Microsoft Common Source
> Code Control interface to SVN) from www.pushok.com? If not configured
> the right way, this tool can do similar things, as it lurks in the
> background monitoring checks and commits and altering RO flags unless
> told not to do so.

Huzzah! *Great* catch. I'm feeling slightly foolish, but the sense of
relief totally outweighs that. Thank you!

I came to SVN from Visual Source-Safe, and assumed that some sort of IDE
plugin would be beneficial for SVN. I installed the SVNSCC trial but
after reading the SVN docs properly, I realised that SVN doesn't really
need a plugin at all, and that TortoiseSVN has ample GUI goodness. Of
course I didn't bother to remove SVNSCC.

SVNSCC installs a background process called PushOkRWMon.exe, which
evidently monitors SVN-controlled files and makes them read-only. The
program's help states that "almost all IDEs expect this". I can see
their point, but changing permissions on files that SVNSCC has not been
called on to manage seems a bit "impolite". SVNSCC has a setting called
"Checkout files readonly" which can be used to switch off this behaviour.

> Proper configuration cures this.
>
> henning

Uninstalling SVNSCC cured it too :)

Thanks again,
Rob.

> > From: Rob Brown [mailto:rob.brown@whispertech.co.nz]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 5:41 AM
> > To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: Checked out files become read-only
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I sent a message on this subject about a week ago, and received no
> > response. I'm now completely desperate, and possibly at least half-way
> > insane.
> >
> > My problem is that when svn performs an update or commit operation on my

> > working copy, it sets the read-only attribute on the controlled files.
> > The behaviour follows bizarre (to me) patterns, but the upshot is that
> > it's no use to me in its present state.

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