[MITgcm-devel] CVS file permissions and "cvs watch"

[Alistair Adcroft]

Actually, I placed the "watch" on two files and emailed you about them - you
changed those files just as I was about to check in their deletion: I was in
the process of deleting/replacing them them with other files in a tidy-up
... since I didn't get to check-in nor will for two weeks you may consider
them unwatched.

A.
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-----Original Message-----
From: mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org
[mailto:mitgcm-devel-bounces at mitgcm.org] On Behalf Of Ed Hill
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:48 AM
To: MITgcm-devel
Subject: [MITgcm-devel] CVS file permissions and "cvs watch"



Hi folks,

Jean-Michel and I recently had some problems with check-outs from the CVS
repository.  A few files, including:

  model/src/ini_mnc_io.F

and some in pkg/mnc/ had unhelpful read-only (-r--r--r--) permissions
instead of the more normal (-rw-r--r--) permissions.  This caused annoying
errors when trying to delete or edit these files.  And fresh check-outs,
check-ins, and updates did nothing to help.

So we googled a bit and found the solution:

  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-patches/2003-11/msg00132.html

which is to delete the "CVS/fileattr" files within the *repository*. 
Supposedly, these files are created when someone (perhaps accidentally) does
a "cvs watch" on one or more files.  So, in future, please don't try to use
the cvs watch facility.  And save this email in case we have this
(annoying!) problem again!

Ed

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