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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 1998 17:28:51 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvsup and file permissions 
Message-ID:  <199810160028.RAA02305@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:48:40 EDT." <19981015194840.A16439@netmonger.net> 

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> This is something I've kind of been ignoring for a while, but now that
> I'm tracking current/BETA on a couple more machines, I'd like to solve
> it.  I don't see anything obvious in the manpage.
> 
> Basically, I maintain one copy of the CVS tree on our big server with
> cvsup, and use remote CVS+ssh to check stuff out onto other machines.
> Because CVS needs write access, I have set up a group for the users
> that have permission to do this sort of thing.  The problem is that cvsup
> keeps taking the group permissions away when it updates the repository.

Use the -R option to cvs when checking out.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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