[PATCH] bzr tracks permissions

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 04:09:23AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>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

Would that include comprehensive support for ACLs on all supported
platforms where that's available?

/M

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