[Gnu-arch-users] Re: file sharing semantics

[Neal D. Becker]

Charles Duffy wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 13:17, Neal D. Becker wrote:
>> I just tried to edit a file owned by someone else, and cvs won't let me
>> commit.
>> 
>> How does tla handle this?
> 
> tla uses the underlying filesystem's permissions. Depending on your
> underlying filesystem, this can be anything from the traditional
> user/group/other arrangement to full ACLs.
> 
Doesn't the tool also get involved?  It seems to me that cvs changes mode to
444 of files I checkin, even though I made them 664.  So, my question is,
what does tla do?  Will it archive with the mode of the original source, or
modify it?