[darcs-users] Re: set-scripts-executable

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 06:29:16PM -0700, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> Well, should I send a patch to change the default or what? David?
> Nobody seems to disagree.

A change of default wouldn't really bother me, but first you'd need to fix
it so --set-scripts-executable works again.

> On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 01:36:53AM +0000, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> > On 2005-08-20, Frederik Eaton <frederik at a5.repetae.net> wrote:
> > >> ...
> > >> a) `darcs --set-scripts-executable` is an option that must be supplied
> > >> to Darcs when you *do* a get.  You can cause this to be the default
> > >> behaviour of Darcs for you if you add
> > >> 
> > >> get     --set-scripts-executable
> > >> 
> > >> to ~/.darcs/defaults [why this isn't just the default behaviour of Darcs
> > >> is beyond me - setting something executable is a lot different than
> > >> *running* it, sigh]
> > >
> > > Well, I propose that we change the default to make scripts executable!
> > 
> > I would like this as well. My team just got bitten by the disappearing
> > executable bit this week when a new CGI script was added to the repo.
> > It needed to repaired in seven copies of the repo. 
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David Roundy
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