[darcs-users] file permissions on patch files

[Gabriel Kerneis]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:13:24PM +0200, Sönke Hahn wrote:
> On Sunday, May 01, 2011 06:06:13 PM Eric Kow wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 16:07:36 +0200, Sönke Hahn wrote:
> > > I set up a darcs repo that should be world readable, because a webserver
> > > accesses it. However in the _darcs/patches directory, from time to time
> > > (that is, after pulling and pushing from and to the repo), some files are
> > > not marked world-readable. I suspect this is a darcs issue. (But of
> > > course this could also be a fault with our server.) Has anyone
> > > encountered something similar? Any ideas, what I might be doing wrong?
> > 
> > It could be worth starting with trying to boil this down into a minimal
> > test case in the form of a shell script and a simple repository created
> > from scratch.  If this is purely a darcs issue (which it well may be,
> > I think I've been struggling with something similar but haven't had time
> > to try and boil it down myself), I would expect that darcs apply locally
> > on that server would have the same unwanted behaviour
> 
> Just FYI:
> This didn't occur on our server again since then, so I have no idea how to 
> reproduce it :(

I missed your fist mail, but I also observed such behaviour some time ago.
It was with an older darcs (probably the one shipped with Debian) and
always on an NFS partition.

Best,
-- 
Gabriel