[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Re: [PATCH] v4l fix

[Eric Lammerts]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Arpi wrote:
> everyone has.
>
> cvs is too lame to work with user groups. i can limit it only one user or
> all user. it would work with slackware, but mphq runs debian and tehre each
> user has an own group with the same name, as primary group. so whenever he
> commits something, his group will be set for that file as owner group.

If you make all directories setgid (or mount the filesystem with the
bsdgroups option), all new files and directories with get the group of
the parent directory, and cvs will work fine with user groups.

Eric