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Re: svnadmin create makes bad file permissions

From: Jeff Smith <jsmith_at_robotronics.com>
Date: 2007-04-03 16:24:30 CEST

On Friday 30 March 2007 20:31, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> If you meant the svnadmin documentation - well, svnadmin behaves
> exactly like almost all Unix commands: it creates output files as
> its own user.  I can't imagine what else anyone would expect.  If
> you want to create files owned by user 'foo', the thing to do is to
> become user 'foo' before creating them.  Nothing specific to svn
> here.

Yeah, or if one wants root to configure the repository, they normally
have their own scripts that do the work. There are plenty of options
for the administrator... Subversion shouldn't be expected to read
your mind... this is not MS!

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