What's up with chown.c doing a chmod?

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Sat Jan 7 00:03:46 UTC 2006


On Friday 06 January 2006 13:18, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 05 January 2006 14:57, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > So perhaps someone was trying to undo that effect,
> > despite this comment's warning. I'd suggest removing the chmod call. I
> > don't suppose there's ChangeLog entry or cvs blame entry for the
> > offending line?
>
> A while back there was a marvelous feature of the web interface that would
> show you an annotated and color coded version of the file indicating which
> checkin was responsible for the current value of each line of the file.
> Unfortunately, that feature was lost in the move to subversion.

i'm pretty sure it's just a feature that's been disabled ... ive used other 
viewsvn web pages that had an annotate option

> The closest we can get now is "svn log coreutils/chown.c" which shows svn
> 7425 from Glenn was "preserve suid/sgid bits".

or you could do `svn ann coreutils/chown.c` which gives you exactly what you 
want
-mike



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