Re: [Gnu-arch-users] expert needed: arch doesn't support multi-committer archives!

[Jonathan Walther]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:22:45AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> so when commiting a simple changeset the permissions of
> cat--branch--ver directory would be copied, if creating a new version
> permissions of cat--branch would be copied, if creating a new branch
> permissions of the category would be copied, if creating a new
> category the permissions of the top level archive dir would be copied.
>
> one could also restrict access on who is allowed to create new
> categories/branches/versions.

I like that idea.  A lot.  But does sftp let you stat() a file on the
remote side?  Could we have something like this in case it doesn't?

.arch-params/=meta-info/=archive-umask
.arch-params/=meta-info/=category-umask
.arch-params/=meta-info/=branch-umask
.arch-params/=meta-info/=version-umask
.arch-params/=meta-info/=patchlevel-umask

Each umask would apply to all subdirectories, unless it was overridden
by a more specific umask.

Jonathan

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