On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 01:48, Ben Reser wrote:
> 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.
Yay!
> > 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.
We are switching over, project by project. This issue just poses a
new challenge, and poses a bottleneck on site updates that wasn't
present with CVS. I'm reluctant to move more projects, since it
is undesirable to make the bottleneck worse ;).
> 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.
Correct.
> They'd like to do the same with SVN. (Correct me if I explained
> it wrong Sander).
Sander
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Received on Fri Mar 19 09:02:06 2004