Re: why does Subversion change file permission

On 2007-12-06 13:19:29 +0100, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> On 12/6/07, Vincent Lefevre <vincent+svn@vinc17.org> wrote:
> > Note that setting the umask is not always possible as several files
> > may have different permissions.
>
> Subversion doesn't change permissions. It replaces the file which was there.

OK, but I suppose that there are several ways to replace a file.
For instance, if one does "echo foo > bar" in a shell while bar was
already existing, then the permissions of bar are not changed.

FYI, hg keeps the permissions of the current file.

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