On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Martin Gagnon <eme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> sure it would be nice to keep permission and ownership.... may be storing > the output of: ls -ln $(fossil ls) in the repo could be used from a > script to check/restore permissions... > Permissions are a touchy subject because they're inherently platform-specific and fossil tries to be platform-agnostic insofar as is feasible. Once fossil has Unix permissions support, people will want extended attributes support, ACLs, and other weird stuff (not that Unix permissions aren't weird, but they are the most common case). Fossil initially had _no_ support for permission, on portability/philosophical grounds, but Richard eventually caved to public pressure and added support for the executable bit primarily because not having it breaks the "configure" script which lives in the vast majority of open source repos. Fossil is designed/meant for managing _source repos_, and it is very rare that source repos use non-default permissions for files (other than +x, which is an unfortunate but exceedingly common special case). -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal
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