using bazaar as root

[Rahul Nabar]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 4:37 PM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>
> The primary issue is that we don't version the file permissions. We
> generally *preserve* them, but if you delete a file completely, and then
> use "bzr revert" to bring it back, it will come back based on your
> umask. So likely to either be rw-rw-r-- or rw-r--r--- (umask 0002, 0022
> respectively).

Thanks John. I guess I should be safe till I don't have to do a revert
for a deleted file but just on a modified file. Just curious: Why does
bzr not preserve permissions? Is it just storage economy or are there
deeper issues?

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Rahul