Just a quick note for subversion. I was working on a shell script and my first check-in was from the Windows machine I’m working on. My target is the Bash shell in Linux though. When I checked the file out on the target, I had to do a chmod a+x myscript.sh every time I checked out. A little googling and I found that Subversion knows about the executable attribute. I don’t know how exactly it interprets the attribute internally, but what worked for me was setting the svn:executable property for the file in the working directory. I don’t know how to do this with the command-line client, but in Tortoise SVN it was pretty easy. On my Windows machine I right-clicked the file, picked “Properties” and selected the “Subversion” tab. Read the rest of “Chmod a+x”…