Do you think the patch can be improved in any regards? I would like to "breed it up", so to say, to an acceptable status.
Regards, Roberto On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Roberto Reale <roberto.real...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > enclosed is a puny patch I wrote against the script > tools/backup/hot-backup.py.in. > > When creating a backup archive of a live repository, the "legacy" > behaviour of the script is simply to call tar.add() on a hotdump copy. > This has, however, an inconvenience when the original repository is on > a POSIX filesystem and the hotcopy dump is written e.g. on a CIFS > filesystem, thus leading to a possible "permission leakage". > > My patch changes this behaviour by letting the script build up the > archive file by file, and paying special care in copying the > permissions for each file from the repository itself rather than from > the hotcopy dump. > > Do you think it would be useful? > > Regards, > Roberto
