What is your umask set to? Based upon what you are saying, I suspect
that it is set to be '700'. I know that with files that have the
needs-lock property, subversion will try to assume ownership of the
file before the commit. It does this by making a copy and then
renaming it back to the original. (I don't know why it would bother
doing this if you don't have needs-lock)
Anyhow, the creation of a "new" file would be governed according to
your umask.
-steve
On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Kynn Jones wrote:
> I have a sporadic problem with subversion that is driving me
> absolutely insane: committing a revision can cause the permissions
> of the underlying file to be changed.
>
> I cannot predict when such behavior will occur. Everything will be
> fine for several commits, and, one fine moment, even though I have
> not changed the permissions in the underlying file, the commit will
> cause these permissions to change. It looks like this:
>
> % ls -l path/to/some/file
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jones jones 7653 2009-02-20 21:39 path/to/some/file
> % svn ci -m '' /path/to/some/file
> Sending path/to/some/file
> Transmitting file data .
> Committed revision 1177.
> % ls -l path/to/some/file
> -rw------- 1 jones jones 7653 2009-02-23 13:38 path/to/some/file
>
> To make matters worse, even if I change the permissions back to what
> they were before the commit, every subsequent commit will change
> them back to the unwanted value. Grrrr!!!
>
> FWIW, at the moment I'm the only person making changes to these
> files (though other uses check them out for viewing the source code).
>
> Is there some way to tell subversion to leave the permissions alone??
>
> Is this insane behavior documented anywhere?
>
> This behavior is totally unpredictable (by me at least), so I cannot
> provide a reproducible example.
>
> TIA!
>
> Kynn
>
>
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