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This month's question - Summer 2008

Q: Hi Greg,

Hi Greg, I committed a Perl script to my Subversion repository and want to check it out on a Linux machine and run it.

When I check it out, its execute bit isn't set, so I have to set it manually. Is there a way to configure Subversion to do that automatically? -- D.F.

A: Subversion includes a feature to do exactly what you want. Here is an example session with a non-executable Perl script. Notice that I use the svn propset command to set the svn:executable property on the file. Once this property is set, when Subversion checks the file out of the repository, it will set its execute bit automatically.

			
$ ls -l
total 2
-rw-r--r--  1 glarkin  glarkin  209 Jul 23 18:01 showtime.pl
$ svn propset svn:executable yes showtime.pl
property 'svn:executable' set on 'showtime.pl'
$ svn commit -m "Added exec prop" showtime.pl
Sending        showtime.pl
Committed revision 2.
$ ls -l showtime.pl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 glarkin  glarkin  209 Jul 23 18:01 showtime.pl
$ svn propget svn:executable showtime.pl
*
Finally, keep the following caveats in mind:
  • This only works on filesystems that honor the executable bit, i.e. not NTFS, FAT32, etc.
  • File properties are versioned, so don't forget to commit after changing them.

Regards,
Greg


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