Re: pristine store design

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 08:48, Neels J Hofmeyr <neels_at_elego.de> wrote:
>...
>> If the caller creates the file, the caller chooses the file's name. We
>> have to trust the caller to use the right kind of creation functions to
>> give a safely unique name.

libsvn_wc. no big deal.

>> If the caller creates the file, the pristine store can't keep track of
>> what's in its temporary directory. Does it matter? Maybe not, yet.

No.

>> If the caller creates the file, the caller chooses the file's
>> permissions. The pristine store loses the ability to control privacy.
>> Does it matter? Maybe not, yet.

bunk.

install:
  move file
  chmod file

we do this *today* ... there isn't anything new tech here.

>...

-g
Received on 2010-03-03 17:11:24 CET