According to kernel.org git does not store all the permissions possible for files. Git is a content tracker, where content is de facto defined as “whatever is relevant to the state of a typical sourcecode tree”. Basically, this is just files’ data and “executable” attribute. So git stores only the content in the file and … Read more
I guess my other post was deleted for being a little too general, so I’ve refined it below: The thing to do is make a custom action. It’s pretty straightforward, check out the MSDN walkthrough for writing a C# custom action here. You’ll put your permission-changing code inside the Install method: Follow the first few … Read more
Right click on your command prompt and “Run as Administrator” (or whatever program you’re using to make those symlinks needs to be run as adminstrator).
My fix has been to define my own constants as I couldn’t find any in os or syscall: const ( OS_READ = 04 OS_WRITE = 02 OS_EX = 01 OS_USER_SHIFT = 6 OS_GROUP_SHIFT = 3 OS_OTH_SHIFT = 0 OS_USER_R = OS_READ<<OS_USER_SHIFT OS_USER_W = OS_WRITE<<OS_USER_SHIFT OS_USER_X = OS_EX<<OS_USER_SHIFT OS_USER_RW = OS_USER_R | OS_USER_W OS_USER_RWX = OS_USER_RW … Read more
SVN does have the capability of storing metadata (properties) along with a file. The properties are basically just key/value pairs, however there are some special keys like the ‘svn:executable’, if this property exists for a file, Subversion will set the filesystem’s executable bit for that file when checking the file out. While I know this … Read more
I encountered the error message when renaming or moving files in VS Code. I then noticed that it was the same in Windows Explorer. I develop in Angular using Angular-CLI and I execute the command ng build –watch in a cmd. When I stopped the watch command, that solved the issue and I was able … Read more
We’ve had issues removing files and directories on Windows, even if we had just copied them, if they were set to ‘readonly’. shutil.rmtree() offers you sort of exception handlers to handle this situation. You call it and provide an exception handler like this: import errno, os, stat, shutil def handleRemoveReadonly(func, path, exc): excvalue = exc[1] … Read more
Make file executable: chmod +x file Find location of perl: which perl This should return something like /bin/perl sometimes /usr/local/bin Then in the first line of your script add: #!”path”/perl with path from above e.g. #!/bin/perl Then you can execute the file ./file There may be some issues with the PATH, so you may want … Read more