Re: File permissions

You didn't reply to the list, so I'm sending this reply there so
others can benefit from the discussion.

On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:53, Witold Rugowski wrote:

>> http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn/branches/meta-data-versioning/
>> Be sure to read its readme.
>
> Thank You for reply. I did look at it, and indeed it is not for
> me ;-) First it need to be patched in svn directly, and this is not
> always possible. It is alpha/beta and I prefer to deal with simple
> and own cooked ;)) alpha perl script rather than with alpha code
> embedded in much bigger project...
>
> I will stay with my script. However if someone find it useful -
> here you go: http://nhw.pl/blg/articles/ssvn/
>
> It is based on UNIX permissions and is not portable (GID and UID is
> stored numerically).

I agree—building from source and keeping the patch up-to-date with
the latest source can be a headache.

And indeed the readme for the meta-data-versioning branch says one of
the objections was that others said it should be implemented as
wrappers, not in Subversion, so your wrappers may be both the better
way and the easier way to go.

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Received on Wed Apr 5 13:40:10 2006