conversion doesn't preserve permission bits

[rjsparks]

In the xml2rfc conversion there were several scripts that had their executable bit set as a property in svn, but that didn't translate into the right properties in git/github.

If it's fast to add, it would be extremely helpful to preserve that information for the datatracker and mailarchive conversions.

For example:

rjsparks@undex bin % pwd
/Users/rjsparks/ietf/datatracker/trunk/ietf/bin
rjsparks@undex bin % svn proplist send-scheduled-mail
Properties on 'send-scheduled-mail':
  svn:executable

There are a lot of these in trunk (and probably many more in branches), so fixing them up manually would be quite a chore.

rjsparks@undex trunk % svn proplist -R . | grep -B3 svn:executable | grep '^Prop' | wc
     168     504    8846

[ronaldtse]

@rjsparks we'll have to investigate why that happens, that's strange. I wasn't aware that the process would drop the executable bit.

From http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/repository-editing.html#CVS it says:

The svn:executable and svn:special properties are translated into permission settings in the input stream; svn:executable becomes 100755 and svn:special becomes 120000 (indicating a symlink; the blob contents will be the path to which the symlink should resolve).

@HassanAkbar can you help check why this happens? Thanks.

[HassanAkbar]

I've looked into this, reposurgeon is adding execute permission to the files. I looked into the xml2rfc repo and found that the permissions were changed after the migration in this PR.

[ronaldtse]

Thank you for the investigation @HassanAkbar . I think we can close this task now?

[HassanAkbar]

Thank you for the investigation @HassanAkbar . I think we can close this task now?

Yes, I think it can be closed.