Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Shared working directories

[Andrew Suffield]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:03:17PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On May 31 2004, Miles wrote:
> > Stig Brautaset <address@hidden> writes:
> > > I fudged around this for a while at work by making the "archusers" group
> > > the first group they were members of. This worked in most cases, but was
> > > far from ideal.
> > 
> > What were the problems?  It would be nice if this worked properly, as it
> > seems an obvious and convenient way to support multi-user archive access.
> 
> For the archive access it mostly worked. However, there were problems
> with several people sharing the source tree.

I think this is the wrong way to go. Create a role account and stuff a
'tla update' in a crontab at ten minute intervals.

Or something like the system I have running for bugs.gnuarch.org: the
project tree contains a script which sends a short mail to the server,
which in turn merges from *my* archive into the working tree and
commits the lot.

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