On 06/11/15 18:56, Jože Fabčič wrote:
Hi all,
I compiled a library (boost) and found out that few files are missing
the svn:executable property. I wanted to set the property and the
command line client started to apply the property to all the files in
the current directory:
b:\boost\boost-1.44>svn propset svn:executable "*" bootstrap.sh
property 'svn:executable' set on 'boost-build.jam'
property 'svn:executable' set on 'boost.css'
property 'svn:executable' set on 'boost.png'
property 'svn:executable' set on 'bootstrap.bat'
property 'svn:executable' set on 'bootstrap.sh'
svn: E200009: Cannot set 'svn:executable' on a directory
('B:\boost\boost-1.44\doc')
The working copy was created with TortoiseSVN, probably 1.8.10 that
linked SVN 1.8.11. I upgraded to the latest TortoiseSVN 1.8.11 that
links SVN 1.8.13 and received the same result. I installed SVN 1.8.13
from https://www.visualsvn.com/downloads/ and received the same result.
On unix, the command works correctly. Using some other value of a
property, as used for example in SVN book works fine:
b:\boost\boost-1.44>svn propset svn:executable on bootstrap.sh
The asterisk "*" is returned as the value of property.
b:\boost\boost-1.44>svn propget svn:executable bootstrap.sh
*
When searching google with "svn execute permission windows", the first
result that I receive is
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6874085/how-to-set-execute-attribute-to-a-file-and-check-it-in-svn-from-windows
and besides the correct procedure using TortoiseSVN it also presents the
wrong command-line invocation
|svn propset svn:executable "*" someScript|
||
It seems that the value of property is incorrectly used also for
selecting the target:
b:\boost\boost-1.44>svn propset svexecutable "i*" bootstrap.sh
property 'svexecutable' set on 'index.html'
property 'svexecutable' set on 'INSTALL'
property 'svexecutable' set on 'bootstrap.sh'
Please retry this command with the property name "svexecutable", then
look at the contents of the property:
svn propget svexecutable INSTALL
I guess it will show "index.htm" (or some other filename).
If this is true then it seems to expand the property value like a
filename pattern. And since it finds multiple files you get some
additional files for which the property is set.
Another experiment is using a different property value:
svn propset svn:executable X bootstrap.sh
- Martin
