Handling unmergeable files -- a call to arms

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 11:40 +0200, Martin Pool wrote:
> 2009/5/30 Russel Winder <russel.winder at concertant.com>:
> > Any hint as to which bit of Bazaar I will need to look at to intercept
> > all file updates?
> >
> > I guess I may end up having to monkey patch to create an interceptor?
> > (Not nice, but maybe necessary?)
> 
> Better to avoid monkey patching; perhaps add a hook to Bazaar that's
> fired before and after a tree transform (Aaron can comment on details)
> and use that to change permissions.

Aaron failed to take the bait :-(

Are there hooks in Bazaar currently for these phases that intercept
functions can be added to?

(And I agree, monkey patching is definitely a technique of very last
resort.)
-- 
Russel.
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