Re: [Gnu-arch-users] shared revision libraries

[Phil Frost]

What I'd like to see is a way to register a revision library as
read-only, so one can register someone else's library without arch
complaining when it discovers it can't write to it.

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 12:36:24AM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Phil Frost wrote:
> >I have a box on which many developers are working on the same project.
> >I'd like to know if there is any way to share a greedy revision library
> >between all of them. The problem is that there seems to be no way to
> >maintain the correct permissions.
> 
> It just doesn't work.  If the source file has permissions rwx------, 
> there's no way two users can share it.  So the whole thing is bound to 
> not work some of the time.  And I think the sgid bit is Arch controlled, 
> so I believe changing that will lead to trouble.
> 
> Aaron