mode support missed the append function?

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 07:37 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > at least, there are no tests for transport.append(path, file, mode)
> > 
> > ..
> > 
> > Rob
> 
> If you look at transport/__init__.py There is no support for
> .append(path, file, mode). Appending doesn't change the mode of a file
> (normally).

Appending can create files though. Append only stores will typically
'just append' rather than try to read, fail, put.

> None of the transports support passing a mode.
> 
> Is this something you would like to see? We can add that functionality.
> I was using the idea that put() creates a new file, so you need a mode.
> append() modifies in place.
> 
> But I can see if we change to knits, we might use .append() as a time to
> maintain the 'files have a similar mode as .bzr/' constraint.

I think append should support a mode for when it decides to create the
file.

Rob

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