Re: [Gnu-arch-users] BUG: feature request: 'tla chmod' which 'touch'es files

[Zenaan Harkness]

> > Files must be able to be publicly readable when in an arch archive.
> 
> In an arch archive, sure, but the working directories just need to be
> in whatever shape the user wants to edit them in.

Exactly.

And so how do you propose to achieve that, if permissions are not
stored separately to the file?

(BTW, Bitkeeper stores perms separately.)

zen