Re: CVS snapshot loses executable bits

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:09:18AM +0200, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In the CVS snapshot
> 
> http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk.tar.gz?root=pari&view=tar
> 
> all regular files seem to have their "executable" permission bits 
> cleared.  For example:
> 
> $ cd trunk
> $ ls -l C*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jdemeyer users  46748 May 14 16:29 CHANGES
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jdemeyer users 213505 May 24  2006 CHANGES-2.2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jdemeyer users  20592 May  5 23:24 COMPAT
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jdemeyer users  18007 Nov  3  2000 COPYING
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jdemeyer users   5484 Feb 25 11:53 Configure
> 
> Note that Configure should have -rwxr-xr-x instead.

Yes this is a really annoying bug of viewvc.
(http://viewvc.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=233)

I applied a fix, so it should work now.

Cheers,
Bill.