Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Linus

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

    Miles> Neil Stevens <address@hidden> writes:

    >> Yes.  Example: KDE uses them to restrict write access for
    >> sensitive modules like www, restrict use of "official" branch
    >> names to select people, and prevent common mistakes of people
    >> importing code into the wrong place.

    Miles> Could those things all be done with filesystem permissions,
    Miles> since arch's archive layout mirrors the high-level
    Miles> structure of an archive?

I doubt it.  For example, in XEmacs the "release-\d+-\d+" tags are
reserved for "official" release branches, and "r\d+-\d+-\d+" for
"official" release tags.

How would you use filesystem permissions to allow

tla make-branch xemacs--stephen-xft-xemacs

but not

tla make-branch xemacs--release-22-0

?  It's pretty obvious how to use a cvs trigger script to do this,
though.


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