[darcs-users] file permissions on patch files

[Sönke Hahn]

On Sunday, May 01, 2011 06:06:13 PM Eric Kow wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 16:07:36 +0200, Sönke Hahn wrote:
> > I set up a darcs repo that should be world readable, because a webserver
> > accesses it. However in the _darcs/patches directory, from time to time
> > (that is, after pulling and pushing from and to the repo), some files are
> > not marked world-readable. I suspect this is a darcs issue. (But of
> > course this could also be a fault with our server.) Has anyone
> > encountered something similar? Any ideas, what I might be doing wrong?
> 
> It could be worth starting with trying to boil this down into a minimal
> test case in the form of a shell script and a simple repository created
> from scratch.  If this is purely a darcs issue (which it well may be,
> I think I've been struggling with something similar but haven't had time
> to try and boil it down myself), I would expect that darcs apply locally
> on that server would have the same unwanted behaviour

Just FYI:
This didn't occur on our server again since then, so I have no idea how to 
reproduce it :(