Tracking permissions [was: Re: [PATCH] Branch and pull-- now with remote]

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Benno <benjl at cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:

  > On Wed Jun 01, 2005 at 18:36:17 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
  > >> I believe this is mostly because bzr doesn't actually track file
  > >> permissions yet, is that true?
  > >
  > >That's right.  Actually, Martin was only planning on tracking the
  > >execute bit.
  > >
  > 
  > I think this is a very good idea. When working on a source base, or more
  > importantly trying to share it with others on the same machine, being able
  > to freely change read & write permissions is quite important.

The reverse is also true. In some cases is important that the
permissions are preserved. For example when versioning files in ones
home directory it is desirable that some of the dot files (like
.emacs) to be readable for everyone, but not the
addressbook or .ssh. Similarly sometimes it is desirable that some
files or directories are read-only. 

                     --dan