VCS comparison table

[Tim Webster]

On 10/20/06, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy at imag.fr> wrote:
> "Tim Webster" <tdwebste at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > First I want to say every SCM I know of sucks when it comes to tracking
> > configurations, simply because they don't record or restore file metadata,
> > like perms, ownership, and acl.
>
> That's not a simple matter.
>
> Tracking ownership hardly makes sense as soon as you have two
> developers on the same project. What does it mean to checkout a file
> belonging to user foo and group bar on a system not having such user
> and group?
.
> That said, it can be interesting to have it, but disabled by default.

Yes I agree it should be disabled by default. And enabled based on the
local settings.