[cvsnt] Re: permissions 444;

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Sat Apr 9 17:50:58 BST 2005


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Martijn Laan wrote:
> Do you maybe have another idea why this is happening? Unfortunately I
> can't find a pattern to when it happens or not. But here's one example:
> when I perform a merge, all files that were new on the branch are marked
> read only. In the past this did not happen (as I prefer). The read 
> only-ness is sticky too: it stays both on commit and even on a 'get the 
> clean copy' (the .# file stays read only which will lead to problems 
> later when WinCVS wants to rename the file to the .# version a second 
> time).

This sounds more like a WinCVS issue -  Try posting on the WinCVS newsgroup.

It sounds like you've got the read only checkout flag switched on.

Tony



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