Forum OpenACS Development: Re: Core team heads-up. Check for curriculum bar in default master committed to HEAD

Andrew is right in saying that there is no way to sanely preserve file permissions in CVS.  There is an experimental feature to somewhat solve this problem though (for those who like to live on the bleeding edge).  Refer to (URL may wrap):

http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html#CVS_keeps_changing_file_permissions__why_does_it_do_that_