How to change permissions on a file in subversion?

Asked by dookie (61

) May 26th, 2008

I accidentally checked a file into subversion with 755 permissions (rwxr-xr-x) instead of 644 (rw-r—r—). Now, every time the file is checked out, it has the wrong permissions.

I can modify the permissions of the file locally (using chmod), but when I try to commit them, subversion does not detect a modification.

Is there anyway to solve this problem with editing .svn files?

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Subversion does not store or version the permissions on files which, to me, makes sense – it is concerned only with the contents and structure of your files. The exception is that you can set svn:executable on a file which will restore the executable bit when you do a checkout (on *nix systems only, of course).

If you absolutely must maintain those permissions then I’d suggest making a checkout script that does a chmod after your checkout has completed.

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