Re: Bug#140349: ITP: cvs-conf -- Manage your configuration files via CVS
* martin f krafft
| also sprach Sebastien J. Gross <sjg@debian.org> [2002.03.28.1819 +0100]:
| > cvs-conf allows users to manage their configuration files using
| > CVS. On the server, a global configuration project is created and
| > each host is a part of the global configuration module. The
| > advantage of cvs-conf is its capaicity to restore all file
| > permissions (user, group and rwx).
|
| i am not doubting this, but there's a reason why CVS disables the
| permission storage mechanism by default: it works only sporadically
| (read the source).
It does not disable anything. If you had read the info file it states
pretty clearly:
All `,v' files are created read-only, and you should not change the
permission of those files. The directories inside the repository
should be writable by the persons that have permission to modify the
files in each directory. This normally means that you must create a
UNIX group (see group(5)) consisting of the persons that are to edit
the files in a project, and set up the repository so that it is that
group that owns the directory.
This means that you can only control access to files on a
per-directory basis.
See #10448 and #15516 (and my comments to them).
--
Tollef Fog Heen, CVS maintainer
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.
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