Josh England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to retain permissions on all files,
Permission *and* ownership (arch doesn't store ownership. Most revision control systems won't because they're not designed to be used as root). > I'm not familiar with all the internals of arch, but all of this is > conceivable and should be fairly straight-forward since tar is the > file-store. Actually, tar is just the way to serialize a changeset. The changeset mainly contains patches, not the files themselves. For example, arch manages symbolic links, but AFAIK, there are no symbolic links in arch changesets, but a description of the link in a "normal" file. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/tutorial/changeset-format.html > Changesets of 'special' files would simply invoke 'mkfifo' or 'mknod' as > appropriate instead of 'patch' (or whatever). This is, of course, very > UNIX-centric, but all the code could be #ifdef'd out for other > platforms. That's a personal opinion (I'm not a tla developer) but I don't think you can hope an inclution of this in tla's mainline. -- Matthieu _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
