RE: Disabling automatic setting of svn:executable property

The problem is that any file created by a non-Cygwin Windows program will show up in Cygwin as mode 777 by default, unless you do a chmod from the Cygwin shell afterwards. What I'm looking for is a solution that would be convenient for the Cygwin/Windows users and not subject to the "user needs to do N things before every svn add / whoops, user forgot step M out of N" problem.

I spent a bit of effort when we did our recent cvs2svn fixing up inconsistent permissions in the old CVS repository. But it looks like pretty soon we'll have a similar situation in the Subversion repository unless we can find a good way to prevent execute bits from being accidentally set. I'd hate to have to set up a draconian pre-commit hook that rejects commits setting non-program/script files to executable. And I would find it hard to believe we're the first to have this issue.

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Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Archer [mailto:Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 6:43 AM
To: Daniel Schepler; users_at_subversion.apache.org
Cc: Jesse Liesch
Subject: RE: Disabling automatic setting of svn:executable property
> We have a lot of users using Subversion under Cygwin, which means that 
> any files they add get marked as executable by default (and almost 
> always uselessly).  Is there any way to disable the automatic setting 
> of the svn:executable property on an "svn add"?
> The closest thing I see in the manual is --no-auto-props, but that 
> doesn't seem to have the desired effect in a quick test.
> --
> Daniel
Is the execute property of the file on? I expect it is. Use chmod to turn it off before adding the file. 
(this is mostly an educated guess since I don't use cygwin).
BOb