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Date:      Sun, 08 Aug 1999 13:23:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, billf@jade.chc-chimes.com
Subject:   Re: cvs
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990808132328.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199908081935.OAA04278@mpp.pro-ns.net>

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Mike Pritchard wrote:
>> 
>> Note, if you would have just _run_ the program with a umask of 2
>> then it would have worked too.  It honors the umask setting unless
>> overridden in the supfile.
> 
> Yes, but if I ever run cvsup by hand I wind up with cvsup
> going through my whole tree and resetting attributes because
> my default umask isn't 2.  I once started up a cvsup by hand, sat
> down to eat/watch TV, came back and realized that cvsup had reset
> all of my file permissions.

That just shows that watching TV is _bad_. ;-)

> Putting it in the cvsup file help to make sure you don't screw
> yourself up by accident.

Yep -- that's why I added the feature.

John


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