Re: Issue 1509: unable to share working copy

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:34:25PM +0000, Philip Martin wrote:
> It works on the trunk right now, I'm not planning anything else.
> There is some question about whether r9085 is acceptable or whether it
> needs to be changed.

It's going to be changed. I tried making rename handle read-only files
by making them writable, store the perms of the source file and then
restoring them on the destination after a successful rename. I had djh
test this last night and it won't work. There's no good way to store
and restore the permissions on Windows.

I'm in the process of implementing a helper function WC, restore
read_write as functional on all platforms, and #ifdef WIN32 around the
one use case outside of the wc code.

This seems to be the "best" solution. And will be backportable too.

> For that to happen there would have to be agreement that it is a bug
> fix rather than an enhancement.

Sander had explained that this was one of (if not the only thing)
prefenting the ASF from switching over. As I understand it the ASF
stores their website in a CVS repository and has a working copy on the
server that the site is served out of. A group of people have access to
the server and need to be able to run update in order to update the
site. They'd like to do the same with SVN. (Correct me if I explained
it wrong Sander).

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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