On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 14:05 +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote:
> We shouldn't be able to end up in a situation where the .mt-attrs file
> has records in it for files that don't exist in that revision...
> perhaps there is not enough sanity checking being done on the .mt-attrs
> file.

If anyone attempts to perform stronger error checking on .mt-attrs then
please remember that this file is used not only to manage the execute
bit but also to create empty directories when using a 'broken' build
system that requires empty directories to exist.

Since it bolts straight into lua it can be used for a whole bunch of
other weird and confusing things as well.

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