Arch for CVS Users (Linux Journal)
Posted Jun 3, 2004 6:41 UTC (Thu) by
mbp (guest, #2737)
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Arch for CVS Users (Linux Journal) by iabervon
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Arch for CVS Users (Linux Journal)
> So if you have a CVS repository whose commit access
> is handled with g+ws and a group, you can't do the
> obvious switch.
Yes you can. It works fine. Why are jaberbon and piman repeatedly insisting on this page that it doesn't work when it plainly does? Did you even try it?
OK, it's possible there's soemthing wierd on your machine, or you're hitting an arch bug, or Nick's instructions were less than perfectly clear. Leaving that aside, it works fine: if you have a shared writable directory, you can have a shared writable archive. Easy.
In fact, even less is often needed than what Nick says. Many (most?) Linux machines have a umask of 002 by default and per-user groups. If you have this and you just chmod g+swx the directory, you're done.
This is exactly the same issue that regularly fouls Subversion repos too.
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