Re: [Monotone-devel] Unix Attributes and Symlinks

[Nathaniel Smith]

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On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:52:56PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> I just thought I would announce the scripts and lua hooks I have posted
> on the wiki for tracking unix owner,group, permissions mode, and
> symlink targets.  This makes has made it possible for me to track my
> system configuration (/etc, /boot, etc) easily.
> 
> The url is: http://www.venge.net/monotone/wiki/UnixAttribsAndSymlinks

Cool!  Aside from being useful themselves, this gives us a much more
useful basis to talk about extensions to monotone to make this more
elegant :-).

Re: the "mtn-add" script -- have you seen the attr_init_functions hook
table?  Is there any reason it doesn't work for you?

Can you elaborate more on "monotone's attr get/set commands are
painfully slow"?

-- Nathaniel

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