Re: using asvn

On Nov 3, 2006, at 08:56, Jim Jone wrote:

>> > I am using subversion to track /etc on my linux machines. I have
>> > tried both ssvn and now asvn to keep track of symlinks and
>> > permissions for the files in /etc. Do I need to use asvn or does
>> > the newest version of subversion have the ability to track
>> > permissions and symlinks on files?
>>
>> As far as I know, no (official) version of Subversion tracks file
>> permissions, and all versions handle symlinks properly, on non-
>> Windows operating systems.
>
> Thanks Ryan.
>
> How would you then go about tracking permissions in /etc with
> subversion?

I personally don't do that.

There is an unofficial branch of Subversion that does track
permissions. I don't know how well it works or how current it is, but
it's the owner-group-mode branch here:

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/branches/meta-data-versioning/

You may prefer to not use Subversion directly, but instead use FSVS,
which is based on Subversion and which is designed to do what you're
trying to do.

http://fsvs.tigris.org/

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Received on Sat Nov 4 04:40:24 2006