Re: outsider's perspective

[Kaz Kylheku]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> No concurrent versioning system with a shared repository, and
> particularly not one that can operate in a client/server mode, can ever
> possibly make any use of ownership, nor even of most permissions bits.
> Ownership information, and most permissions bits, "MUST" always be
> specific to the client and it MUST NOT be dictated by the repository.

I agree. By definition, nobody should ``own'' any file in a project.
Files are there so they can be shared and worked on by many people.
In version control, access control makes sense at the granularity of a
whole project: who gets read access to the whole thing, and who gets
read-write.  A versioned tree is effectively one object.