Question

I am working with a cvs repository at a clients site, and I do a checkin via ssh (CVS_RSH=ssh).

My default group is ‘foo’, and I am also a member of ‘bar’.

The repository should be accessible by members of group ‘bar’. However, whenever I do a checkin, it changes the group of the file I checked in to ‘foo’. This makes the file readonly to people who are only in group ‘bar’.

Is there a way to tell cvs to keep the correct group setting? Or do I need to make a special version of ssh to execute ‘newgrp bar’ over the connection? Or is this just an ancient version of CVS that needs to be updated.

Answer 1

Well, CVS has really no file metadata out of binary and executable.

There are a few things you can do

• do a chmod g+s bar on the server directory where you want it to stay bar
• write a small shell wrapper which will replace the real cvs, do a chgrp and call the real cvs afterwards.