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Thierry Moreau wrote: > When I committed a couple of files (one add, one update), they came up > with a "permissions 666;" indication in the repository (the fine > source_xyz.c,v). Other files in the repository are from RCS 5.7, so they > are silent about "permissions ...;". The "permissions" are the permissions of the checked-in file. cvs always makes checked out read/write unless you use '-r' AFAIK (WinCVS has a switch for this). Really it's only there to record the execute bit for unix shell scripts - the read/write status tends to be implicit in the command you're doing... files in the sandbox should be read/write normally. > The CVS/fileattr file has an entry "Fsource_xyz.c _watched=" as > expected, and I set up the $CVSREAD environment variable to some value. > (I must admit that I did set $CVSREAD *AFTER* the "permissions 666" came > un in the repository, but a subsequent commit to these files didn't > change the "permissions value"). AFAIK "CVSREAD" only affects the initial checkout. I'm not 100% sure if WinCVS gets around this somehow or whether it has the same restriction. > When I do a cvs checkout or a cvs update, these two files come up > read-write in the working directory. It defeats my purpose of having > specified "cvs watch on" for them, isn't it? 'watch' will trigger the notify script when you commit a change to the file. If you checkout read only you can use the 'edit -c' and 'commit -c' commands. It's far better to just forget about it, though, and let cvs do what it's good at :-) Tony