bzr read-only errors need improvement (was Re: bzr requires write permissions to root directory of repository)

Alexander Belchenko bialix at ukr.net
Mon Feb 20 10:57:12 GMT 2006


martin f krafft пишет:
> also sprach Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> [2006.02.20.1047 +0100]:
> 
>>Erm, I think both of those are entirely predictable errors :).
>>
>>Both require changing the working tree, and in both cases you would not
>>expect such access.
> 
> 
> i know they change files in the tree, but is there any reason that
> they must be creating temporary files, thus requiring +w on the root
> directory? that's my entire point... why not use .bzr/tmp for
> temporary files...?

May be because it's very possible that in ./bzr/tmp will grow junk files
when some operations fails for some unpredictable reasons.
Who then should clean this dir?

--
Alexander






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