Re: timestamp preservation design (issue 1256)

P.Marek wrote:

>A versioning system is about *conserving*
>information, not losing it. Ideally *all* file information should be saved -
>unix rights, NT acl's, ... I believe a hash of the file is stored now.
>
Heh. What happens to ACLs if you commit on NT and check out on Unix?
What happens to Unix rights if the committer is 'root' but 'luser' wants
to check out a setuid file? There are probably hundreds of such interop
problems with this idea, which is mainly why we didn't implement it
(yes, we _did_ discuss it).

Conserving information is not the same as being a cross between a magpie
and a packrat. Some things are better forgotten. :-)

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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