[PATCH] bzr tracks permissions

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 12:57 -0500, John A Meinel wrote:
...
> Mostly I just wanted to get this patch out to get some feedback.
> Especially how to handle user/group issues.
> 
> I'm thinking that it might be best to include user&group in the commit,
> but if they are different, it isn't considered a 'diff'.
> 
> We could also just not revctl user/group at all, and let higher-level
> pieces support that. Or have it be an options flag inside the tree. I
> think I favor the options flag. So that someone who wants to revctl /etc
>  or $HOME can do so. But by default the only bit that is checked is the
> execute bit.
> 
> Also, this also needs merge() to be updated, so that it will also merge
> the permission bits.


I think we should have two distinct modes of operation.

The default:
track the 'x' bit and only that. Here we read from the user, and set on
user and group.

Insane-mode:
track read/write/execute user/group/all file-owner/file-group

Rob

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