can i version root files as a non-root user in bazaar?

[Rahul Nabar]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:36 PM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>
> Generally, you can chmod + chown the .bzr directory to be writable and
> everything underneath it. I think there might be a problem with files that
> are
> not readable (we'll try to see what there status is, and die because we
> can't
> open them).
>
> But I know at least one or two sysadmins that use it.


I tried
bzr add /etc/ntp.conf
bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "/etc/ntp.conf/".

Soft-linking from my ~/ seems to work. BUt this is sort of roundabout.

-- 
Rahul