[Top][All Lists]   [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Link with permissions
(was: bitkeeper vs tla)  From: John Meinel Subject: [Gnu-arch-
users] Re: Link with permissions (was: bitkeeper vs tla) Date:
Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:43:23 -0500 User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
0.8 (Windows/20040913)  Miles Bader wrote: Dustin Sallings
<address@hidden> writes:   to do any permission bit comparisons
against that tree.   What about this. Tla keeps the meta
information about file permissions separate from the files
themselves. (I think right now the way it checks if permissions
have changed is to do a stat on the revlib and the tree, and
then see what the permission bits are).  Then by default (or
with a flag), a checkout could be read-only. As could revlibs. I
know CVS supports this, I'm guessing bitkeeper does as well (in
CVS the 'edit' command undoes the readonly flag.)  I don't know
that "chmod foo" cares enough about the file permissions,
though, since you are changing them, and a hardlinked tree has
the same permissions on all versio