[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus

[Miles Bader]

Colin Walters <address@hidden> writes:
> > As far as I know there's nothing preventing arch from being used _exactly_
> > like CVS, with everyone committing to the same archive (and there's no
> > obstacle to moving to more distributed development in that case either).
> 
> It's my impression that the permissions issues with multiple writers to
> a single tla archive haven't been fully solved yet.

I don't know; is that true with a pure sftp-maintained archive?

The recent report seemed a bit muddied by the author wanting to use the
same archive for both remote and local use, and not wanting to change
his umask for local use.  E.g., the following message seems to suggest
otherwise:

> From: Pau Aliagas <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!
> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:10:54 +0200 (CEST)
> Message-ID: <address@hidden>
>
> From what I can see in my my archives
> -sftp access respects g+s and behaves as expected
> -filesystem access does not respect g+s when creating ++revision-lock and 
>  the +contents dir inside, using umask 0002. It looks like a bug.
>
> sftp looks safe and direct filesystem access looks buggy

-Miles
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