[Fwd: [PATCH] bzr tracks permissions]

[Aaron Bentley]

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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>     file-id
>     name
>     kind (file/directory/symlink)
>     text-id (this is less of a property, though)
>     sha1sum
>     size
> 
> All of those are things that are tracked right now in bzr. You can argue
> that they are properties. 

I believe that file-id is different, because it is the identity of the
inventory entry.  You probably want to add parent-id to that list, also.

> But I think of them as properties that bzr
> core understands. Since we want bzr core to understand the X bit, it
> should be at the same level as the rest of them.

I agree with this, but I think it's worth at least exploring the idea of
accomplishing this by subjecting all these properties to a single,
unified system.

Aaron
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