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


From: Zenaan Harkness
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] BUG: feature request: 'tla chmod' which 'touch'es files
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 07:28:52 +1000

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 03:31, Jason McCarty wrote:
> Harald Meland wrote:
> > If it's the latter, a reduction of the current tla feature set to
> > include only a single "executable file" boolean (the way I think CVS
> > does this) would make Arch less suitable for e.g. keeping track of my
> > home-directory dotfiles; some of which I'd like to be world readable,
> > while other should only be readable by me.
> 
> I think this is a good enough reason to keep all permission versioning
> around, but perhaps it should change to metadata for the sake of shared
> revlibs. That implies some extra pain when working with --link, of
> course, to let tla set the correct permissions of files you want to
> edit.

Isn't --link kind of mutually exclusive with "desired shared revlib
perms"?

To my newbie mind it only really makes sense to disable --link on shared
revlibs. Don't know how one could determine that though... revlib
meta-data?

cheers
zen




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