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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: qn on a shared central archive
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Martin Pool |
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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: qn on a shared central archive |
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Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:20:43 +1100 |
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Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity. (Debian GNU/Linux)) |
On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:03:10 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 12:42, Martin Pool wrote:
>> On http://wiki.gnuarch.org/moin.cgi/Centralized_20Development Colin
>> suggests creating a single user account to own an archive. He seems
>> to suggest by omission that it is not a good idea to have several
>> users all come in over SSH and commit to a central directory, as we
>> currently do with CVS.
>>
>> It seems like that would work -- doesn't it? Is there some reason why
>> it's not recommended?
>
> If the umask is set appropriately, it's just fine. We had a long series
> of folk going 'how do we both use a shared archive and not set the umask
> appropriately'.
OK, I thought that might be it. A similar thing has been biting me with
svn+ssh repositories.
--
Martin