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Date:      Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:26:57 -0500
From:      "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        krentel@dreamscape.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: file modes in CVS repository 
Message-ID:  <22760.913768017@gjp.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:38:11 PST." <199812151738.JAA16465@vashon.polstra.com> 

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John Polstra wrote in message ID
<199812151738.JAA16465@vashon.polstra.com>:
> The policy, if there is one, is two-fold.  Committers should take
> care to set the permissions right before they first import a script.
> Makefiles must be written to ensure that things will still work if
> the permissions are wrong in the repository.

I think the FreeBSD project also cheats to a certain extent that we have 
clean-up scripts that run periodically out of cron and run a find across the 
repository and ``tidy up'' any bogus permissions. I dunno if they are still in 
place, but they were the last time I looked (many moons ago)

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info



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