RE: Disabling automatic setting of svn:executable property

We just tried that. One user complained that the Windows client didn't hide passwords he typed in (displayed the whole thing in plain text instead of displaying *s), and he couldn't commit because the client was unable to find "vim" although it was installed under Cygwin. In short, he found the Windows-native version unusable and went back to the Cygwin version. Any idea what might have caused those issues?

If we can't figure that out, we'll probably have to go with the shell alias solution, which is still suboptimal if someone forgets to use the alias.

-- 
Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Schaber [mailto:m.schaber_at_3s-software.com] 
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 11:27 PM
To: Daniel Schepler; users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: AW: Disabling automatic setting of svn:executable property
Oh, sorry, I just read that someone else posted the same suggestion.
Sorry for the duplication.
Regards,
Markus
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Markus Schaber
> Gesendet: Montag, 30. Mai 2011 08:05
> An: 'Daniel Schepler'; users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Betreff: AW: Disabling automatic setting of svn:executable property
> 
> Hi, Daniel,
> 
> Just one workaround idea: uninstall the cygwin svn client, and use one 
> of the "native" windows subversion clients for the command line. They 
> should work fine even when called from Cygwin environment.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Markus Schaber
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> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Daniel Schepler [mailto:dschepler_at_scalable-networks.com]
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Mai 2011 20:11
> > An: Bob Archer; users_at_subversion.apache.org
> > Cc: Jesse Liesch
> > Betreff: 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.
> > --
> > 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