Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multiple committers, again

[mlh]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:55:52AM -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
> There's not very much we can do about it, because we don't have very
> strong control of the underlying filesystem. We can change permissions
> with some of the methods (sftp and ftp come to mind), but we can't
> change the permissions with all of the methods (I don't believe we can
> do this on webDAV).

Perhaps a solution to this is have alternative back end
for tla: A plain old archive (e.g. tar,cpio) or sequence
of them. Then a commit could just add another to the
sequence. Efficiency would obviously not be great but
this would preserve the attractive dumbness of the 'server'
and therefore allow lots of caching techniques.

  c-b-v-b0.cpio, c-b-v-p1.cpio, ... c-b-v-cacherev14.cpio, c-b-v-p15.cpio ...

Matt