From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: vc-git bug with top-level repositories
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:11:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uhc9f4qf1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bpzn4qw2.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
[Why personal mail?]
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:01:33 +0200
>
> No. The assumption is that if /foo/bar is owned by somebody different
> from the owner of /foo/bar/baz, then it is unlikely that /foo/bar/baz is
> part of a version controlled work tree with its root at /foo.
>
> I think that assumption perfectly reasonable. I know no version control
> system that makes it reasonably workable to have different users mess
> around in the same VC checkout.
If the ported VC system does not bother to look at native NTFS file
security information (the way we now do in Emacs), then it will
happily let the above situation happen, because it doesn't care about
users.
> The version control systems I know are not backup systems: they don't
> restore file dates (or Make would get confused when rewinding history)
> and don't restore file ownership (which could only be done by root,
> anyway). Having several people mess around in the same checkout is a
> recipe for disaster.
Not on Windows.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-20 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-16 9:17 vc-git bug with top-level repositories Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-18 14:33 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-08-18 16:24 ` Claus
2008-08-18 16:39 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-08-18 20:10 ` Claus
2008-08-18 20:31 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-08-19 11:01 ` Claus
2008-08-19 12:00 ` Paul R
2008-08-19 16:56 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-08-19 20:43 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-19 21:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-08-20 2:22 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-20 9:18 ` Paul R
2008-08-19 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-20 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-20 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <86bpzn4qw2.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
2008-08-20 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-08-20 22:44 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-27 15:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-27 21:17 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-28 2:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-29 0:40 ` Miles Bader
2008-08-29 14:09 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-27 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-27 21:16 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-28 2:06 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <1219912261.8925.63.camel@ubuntu804desktop.localdomain>
[not found] ` <jwvd4jt87g0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-28 19:19 ` Mathias Megyei
2008-08-29 20:12 ` Claus
2008-10-25 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-27 12:43 ` Mathias Megyei
2008-08-29 14:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-29 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-08-19 20:07 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-18 21:05 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2008-08-18 21:18 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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