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

[martin f krafft]

also sprach John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> [2006.02.20.1556 +0100]:
> We don't have to have atomicity for something like .bzrignore, but
> it is nice to have ^C not corrupt a file.

you can trap that signal, no?

> Though I will say that doing 'bzr revert' without having write access
> seems a little bit funny to me.

yeah, i can see that. i guess i am sort of biased because i know my
fileset will never change, which is why i can afford -w on the
directory.

> I realize you have taken great pains to set up all of your read
> and write access (so .bzr/ is writeable, but $wd is not, but
> $wd/some/path is writable, etc). I think you are being a little
> abusive to the system, but it is likely that we will be able to
> support your use case without too much difficulty. More by
> happenstance than by design.

:)

> You still have the issue of the temporary log message on commit.
> Which we have discussed putting into .bzr/ though we really want
> to avoid putting files a user would modify in there. I believe
> both svn and cvs have the property that their meta directories are
> not generally to be edited by users. (You can if you know what you
> are doing, but bzr is the same way.) It was very bad in Arch to
> not know which ones were okay to modify and which ones weren't.

Yeah, these are very valid points. I guess I'd be very happy if bzr
would fallback to $TMPDIR if it finds out it cannot write to .

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