Re: SVN does not store file permitions and ownership info

On 11-Aug-2008, at 19:13 , KES wrote:

> I use SVN as DB to store UNIX configuration files
>
> It is flexible to rollback to last configuration if something goes
> wrong
>
> But SVN does not store file permitions and ownership info
>
> So when I restore files from repository it create files as 644 but
> this is security hole for my system because of it allow others to
> read files which they must not
>
>
>
> It will be great if SVN will store file ownership and permitions
> info in repository

File ownership and modes aren't really part of tracking file contents,
which is what most (in my experience) version control systems
concentrate on.

You might want to look at something like cfengine, puppet, or bcfg2
which are good applications for managing config files, and which can
use a version control system repository as a place to get the configs
from.