From: Tim Webster <tdwebste@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:40:20 GMT
Subject: Re: VCS comparison table
Message-ID: <72877ab10610192040u1e531f9dh3462a934b60cbad9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq7iyw2sg9.fsf@ecrins.imag.fr>

On 10/20/06, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> "Tim Webster" <tdwebste@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > First I want to say every SCM I know of sucks when it comes to tracking
> > configurations, simply because they don't record or restore file metadata,
> > like perms, ownership, and acl.
>
> That's not a simple matter.
>
> Tracking ownership hardly makes sense as soon as you have two
> developers on the same project. What does it mean to checkout a file
> belonging to user foo and group bar on a system not having such user
> and group?
.
> That said, it can be interesting to have it, but disabled by default.

Yes I agree it should be disabled by default. And enabled based on the
local settings.