[Monotone-devel] Attributes and wierd files

[Adrian May]

Hi folks,

I'm looking for a hairy chested VCS at the moment. I fought with 
Subversion for a while but although good in every other respect, it blew 
out when confronted with wierd files and even access modes. The docs for 
monotone are also worrying me in the same regard.

To my mind, whether a file is readable/executable/etc or whether it 
happens to be a link, device, pipe or whatever is just as much part of 
it's nature as it's contents. I'm trying to keep an entire mini-distro 
in a VCS and let the box download system updates as patches, whether 
they affect its perl scripts, kernal modules, devices, ssl keys or 
anything else. I need the permissions and ownerships to work reliably 
and natively, rather than with some afterthought solution.

How close to this ideal can I get with monotone? I dont want the 
reliability to depend on me and my colleagues always remembering to 
press the right button at the right time.

Ad.

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