Re: why does Subversion change file permission

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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.

Except that is not a terribly safe operation. Much better to rename the
old file (if it is open under some process, it will still have an open
filenhandle), create the new file under a different name, then rename
the new file with the original name (these are all atomic operations).

John

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Received on Thu Dec 6 21:28:52 2007