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On an Ubuntu server, I have a directory containing Subversion versioned files. I have used chgrp bb * to set the group owner.

I have also set the directory's SGID bit with chmod g+s mydir so that new files are created with this group:

drwsr-sr-x 4 mat bb  4096 Dec  4 21:37 mydir

This works fine if I create a new file with touch test-touch

-rw-r--r-- 1 mat bb        0 Dec  4 21:43 test-touch

But svn update does not have the same effect:

-rw-r--r-- 1 mat mat    3006 Dec  4 21:44 test-svn

How can I get Subversion to respect the SGID bit?

Mat
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Going by this discussion on the SVN mailing list, it's not possible to preserve a file's permission bits in SVN, apart from the executable bit which has a special SVN property.

gareth_bowles
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According to Version Control with Subversion, the solution is to make sure the instance of svn or svnserve accessing the repository is running with umask 002, see this.

Thomas Arildsen
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Is the subversion executable running as user bb or mat? To find out, check the permissions on the svnserve binary(on my system it's /usr/bin/svnserve. Also check the group that it's owned by.

Kevin M
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  • svnserve is owned by and group root - ls -l /usr/bin/svnserve: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 50432 Aug 7 2009 /usr/bin/svnserve – Mat Feb 08 '10 at 17:35
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I used to have the same problem with subversion on a RHEL4 machine. After having migrated the repository to a RHEL5 machine (and thus to another version of subversion), the problem went away.

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