Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] (optional permissions foo)

[Bug Goo]

Created as bug 198

On Fri Sep 24 05:05:30 2004, Tom Lord wrote:
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> Good idea, at least at first and second glance.
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> Dustin Sallings <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Well, if you can do hard-linked source trees, I've found that my 'tla 
> >> changes' time goes *way* down.
> >
> >     Hmm...  I didn't try that one, but it scares me just a bit.  I have a 
> > fear that some tool I use might end up screwing up the revlib.
> 
> A well-founded fear: I used --link for a while, with good effect (my main
> tools, emacs and patch, both deal well with hard-links), but had to trash
> my entire revlib after a single ill-considered shell-redirection.
> Downloading everything again over a slow net link was not fun.
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> I think --link is not a good idea in general except for trees that you
> won't modify (though temporary trees that you don't modify are in fact a
> very useful and common thing), or are similarly only used in restricted
> ways.
> 
> Perhaps tla could somehow assist this by providing a way to easily make
> all files in a project tree read-only, e.g., `tla get --link --read-only'?
> I guess it would have to add some meta-data indicator to tell mkpatch not
> to do any permission bit comparisons against that tree.
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> - -Miles
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