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  1. Bug #10560
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 10560

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In , Adrian von Bidder (avbidder) wrote : Re: Bug#282468: subversion binaries should be replaced through wrapper scripts to prevent users of keep on screwing their repositories

On Monday 22 November 2004 12.28, Wilfried Goesgens wrote:
> Package: subversion
> Version: 1.0.9-2
> Severity: serious
>
>
> as the subversion book states, one should create a wrapper script
> arround the subversion binaries to keep them from screwing the berkley
> db and their file permission.

I think this is a bug in subversion - the svn binary should take care about
this, and not require a wrapper script.

if (db is g+w) { umask 002 }

and the problem would go away.

wrapper scripts are ugly and error prone and should, imho be avoided in
almost all cases.

-- vbi

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