how to set permissions on a folder that is in SVN via Mac Terminal

Question

I have a folder in SVN that i am connecting to via Mac's Terminal. What is the commands to set a folder's perms to 777?

Answer 1

MacOSX has a fully certified POSIX compliant OS. This also means that the standard Unix command line tools are available, so to change the permissions on a file or folder you can use:

chmod 777 folder

Looking at your comment on another answer, it seems that you want the default checkout permissions to be 777. This is not possible with pure svn. One possible workaround might be to do:

umask 0
svn co folder

Another possibility for you is to use asvn, as this is a wrapper around svn that does store permissions for you.

Answer 2

easy:

chmod 777 folder

However, since subversion only cares about the contents of the files, you can't change those permissions in the repository. If you really need to maintain those permissions, you might want to try and make a simple checkout script that will chmod 777 them after you do a checkout.

Another option would be to svn co the folder copy it somewhere else, svn rm the original, move the copy back to the original directory, perform the chmod 777 and svn ci the folder. Although that might be more trouble than it's worth.

On another note, if you are just trying to get executable privileges on a file, you can use

svn propset svn:executable '' [filename]

but that doesn't seem to be what you are wanting.

Answer 3

The MacOS X Terminal == unix commandline, so all online documentation you see relating to the unix or linux command-line and the subversion command-line client will work just fine.