On Mon, April 12, 2010 at 10:04 am, "Stephan Beal" <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:06 AM, verizon <vze35...@verizon.net> wrote: > >> I'm running fossil version [2255e4e3ba] 2009-12-20 02:58:18 UTC >> on >> UNIX (and linux) and am trying to import about 1 Gig of files (it's a >> Linux >> distribution and tool set for a propriety system). >> > > Fossil lacks several features which make using it for this purpose > feasible. > For example, it doesn't know anything about access rights except for the > executable bit. That means when you check out your distro, all the files > will belong to the user doing the checkout.
If you need access rights set, you include a script to set them - why should Fossil itself remember settings that are dependent on the target machine and OS? Eric _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
