[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: file sharing semantics

[Neal Becker]

Rob Weir wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 04:01:06PM -0500, Neal D. Becker said
>> Charles Duffy wrote:
>> 
>> > On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 13:17, Neal D. Becker wrote:
>> >> I just tried to edit a file owned by someone else, and cvs won't let
>> >> me commit.
>> >> 
>> >> How does tla handle this?
>> > 
>> > tla uses the underlying filesystem's permissions. Depending on your
>> > underlying filesystem, this can be anything from the traditional
>> > user/group/other arrangement to full ACLs.
>> > 
>> Doesn't the tool also get involved?  It seems to me that cvs changes mode
>> to
>> 444 of files I checkin, even though I made them 664.  So, my question is,
>> what does tla do?  Will it archive with the mode of the original source,
>> or modify it?
> 
> Yes, tla will include the file permissions in the changeset, restoring
> them again on "get".  It doesn't store ownership, however (on Linux, at
> least, you need to be root to change ownership anyway).
> 
> Or are you wondering about how it will be stored in the archive itself?
> 

My experience with cvs is that someone else checked in a file, and now I
cannot checkin an update to it.  Yes, I can manually go into the cvs repos
and mv the other file out of the way, and manually replace it with a copy I
own.  But cvs won't let me checkin.

Will I have a similar result with tla?  WWTLAD (What would tla do?)