Re: Bug in Subversion regarding file attributes

On Aug 21, 2011, at 13:21 , Andy Canfield wrote:

> I created a repository and created a subdirectory in it named 'scripts'. In this are a half-dozen Linux shell scripts. Unfortunately, I set the execute flag on only five of them; the sixth was untested as of my first commit so I had never noticed that the execute attribute was unset.
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> [1] I set the execute attribute and did a commit, but the file was not updated in the repository. Apparently the change in atributes was not recognized as a file change by Subversion.

To set the executable attribute of a file that's already under version
control, set its svn:executable property.

$ svn propset svn:executable 1 myshellscript
$ svn commit -m "Set the executable bit for that last script."

Your Subversion client will set the OS-level executable bit for you.
The property value given to the propset command will be ignored.
Like other boolean properties, the value will be "*", without quotes.

Regards,
Steve

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