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Nobilis
Nobilis

Reputation: 7458

Prevent perforce from toggling the execute bit for all users when checking in files

How can I get perforce to retain the execute bit for all and not just for users and groups through the graphical client when checking in files?

Right now what I do is right click on the file -> Change Filetype -> then tick the exec bit set in workspace option. This does preserve the execute bit but only for the user and the file's group (to my understanding, it is the equivalent of the process described in this question).

How can I make it preserve the execute bit for all?

An illustration.

Before checking it in:

-rwxr-x--x  1 user group_name    0 Jul 20 14:14 test_file
         ^

After checking it in:

-r-xr-x---  1 user group_name    0 Jul 20 14:24 test_file
         ^

Upvotes: 0

Views: 875

Answers (2)

jamesdlin
jamesdlin

Reputation: 90125

As far as I can tell, p4 respects your umask configuration, so this likely is a problem with your umask:

$ umask -S
u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx

$ p4 sync -f some_script
//depot/path/some_script#1 - refreshing /client/path/some_script

$ ls -algGF some_script
-r-xr-xr-x 1 0 Jul 21 04:13 some_script*

$ umask o=
$ umask -S
u=rwx,g=rx,o=

$ p4 sync -f some_script
//depot/path/some_script#1 - refreshing /client/path/some_script

$ ls -algGF some_script
-r-xr-x--- 1 0 Jul 21 04:14 some_script*

Upvotes: 2

tkosinski
tkosinski

Reputation: 1696

Change the filetype to +x to set the executable bit automatically.

Upvotes: 0

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