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| author |  https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkJafmCf-sg9_OM0pynFYM3AO4WCgJiaMI <Michele@web> | 2013-10-13 21:43:56 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2013-10-13 21:43:56 +0000 |
| commit | d7ec1435ef80d426b4e4e830d56f74c23288d689 (patch) | |
| tree | 78367e14b4466424c97a4a2e27c0afe9a9da87cc | |
| parent | 619d0d72cd01ab11392c80845d96bad24ecd78b9 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/cross_platform_permissions_woes.mdwn b/doc/forum/cross_platform_permissions_woes.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..882b1dc3e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/cross_platform_permissions_woes.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +a little introduction: +i am forced to use windows on my work laptop and workstation, also my wife needs windows. +my "servers" would be linux, i am actually using fedora and i upgraded from fc17 since i was not able to get a recent version of git annex to compile there. + +what happens, is that once i try to copy from the windows machine where the file is to the linux through ssh+rsync, i receive this error - as long as the user owning the linux repository isn't root: + + c:\locale>git annex copy --to linux myfile + copy bella (checking linux...) (to linux...) + rsync: failed to open "/linux/annex/tmp/SHA256E-s10--937a89b559820f8658892" + myfile + 10 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) + rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at /home/lapo/package/rsync-3.0.9-1/src/rsyn + total size is 10 speedup is 0.09 + failed + git-annex: copy: 1 failed + +the file in tmp has no permissions at all: + + me@linux annex]$ ls -lart tmp/SHA256E-s10--937a89b559820f86588921ef3eb12c13074d +078b62ef205bb597bf2e895408c3 + ----------. 1 me me 10 Oct 13 22:50 tmp/SHA256Es10--937a89b559820f86588921ef3eb12c13074d078b62ef205bb597bf2e895408c3 + +(just consider this if the above makes any sense:) in another case (i cannot reproduce it now, possibly due to having upgraded git annex from some 2012 release), it happened that a failed download via copy/move from linux to windows (failed for permissions) would not be recorded as failed (on windows side), causing files to possibly be killed at the first subsequent drop command. + +my question is: are these 0-permissions on tmp files a bug or just due to some ignorance i did put in setting up the git/annex repo ? is a git/annex repo to be run solely as root/sudoer ? or shall i take any other step in configuring it ? + +technicalities: + +"client": windows version: + + git-annex version: 4.20131002-gf25991c + +"server": linux version: + + git-annex version: 3.20130207 |