From 337694b030e9f20f76a6a08b0e9c9929e1e333a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: short <>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 03:03:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] CVS/Root is always just updated, never re-created (to keep
 file attributes)

---
 bin/cvsutil | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/cvsutil b/bin/cvsutil
index 27a4ab5..b3bf3a8 100755
--- a/bin/cvsutil
+++ b/bin/cvsutil
@@ -194,11 +194,12 @@ my($filename)=@_;
 sub localactionrootset
 {
 	local *R;
-	if (!open R,'>',ROOT) {
+	if (!open R,'+<',ROOT) {
 		mayfatal "File \"".ROOT."\" cannot be written";
 		return;
 		}
 	print R "$opt_root\n";
+	truncate R,tell R;
 	close R;
 }
 
-- 
1.8.3.1