Sure, though it's a little involved. Patch-Tag uses unix security for securing repos. When several users share a private repo, they are all on the same linux group, and the repo has rwxs for that group.
However, darcs also has a global cache for patches (and whatever objects are under _darcs/hashed.inventory) These patches are shared across repos using hard links. So, what happens if you have two repos, with two owners, some hashes in common? The hardlinked file objects can only belong to one group, so somebody is not going to be able to access that repo. In practice this happened rarely (I think! I hope!), and I think this is because most users had the patches cached locally. It did happen though. I finally resolved the problem by making everything under _darcs world readable. Since the parent directory (repo root for a particular repo) is world invisible, the effect is that the hardlinked file objects are shared by everybody that should have access to them, without compromising security. On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Max Battcher <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/19/2009 12:06, Thomas Hartman wrote: >> >> Never mind, I think I found a better way around this problem. > > For reference, I'm curious what problem you've had with hard linking, if you > are willing to discuss it. > > -- > --Max Battcher-- > http://worldmaker.net > _______________________________________________ > darcs-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users > -- Need somewhere to put your code? http://patch-tag.com Want to build a webapp? http://happstack.com _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
