[darcs-users] Using Darcs for Debian package maintenance

[Jon Dowland]

At 1149347913 past the epoch, Max Battcher wrote:
> Christoph Haas wrote:
> >- Darcs does not know about file permissions. 
>
> Basically it is a feature.  Darcs attempts to be platform
> agnostic and there is no good way of storing permission
> information cross-platform.
> 
> One of the typical solutions is just to include a
> permission setting shell script in your repository and let
> people chmod 755 your.script && ./your.script, which gives
> you full control of permissions.

This is a problem for quite a lot of revision control
systems and other such things. I think a small, VCS-agnostic
system for storing file permissions info and actioning it
would be useful. Invocations could be done via hooks in many
VCSs.

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Jon Dowland
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