[admin] darcs on cl.net

[Gary King]

Cool.

Finally done.

On Jul 27, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Attila Lendvai wrote:

>> Hi Attila,
>
> hi Gary,
>
>> I know that Drew has been migrating to a new server and this may be  
>> what
>> changed.  If I understand you correctly, we need to restore /usr/ 
>> bin/darcs so
>> that it is a symlink to /usr/bin/darcs-bin. Is that right?
>
>
> almost.
>
> ln -s darcs-script darcs
>
> this way, when pushing, the script is called by the client side darcs,
> which first sets the umask and only after that calls darcs-bin. i'm
> not sure if this is still needed, recent darcs versions may have a fix
> for that.
>
> without this if you push a patch that creates a new file or directory,
> then other comitters won't be able to push anything that would alter
> the same file until issuing a chmod -R g+w by the one who originally
> pushed the patch that created the file.
>
> also note that there may be other alternatives to set the effective
> umask a binary will run with, but i'm no linux guru.
>
> thanks for looking into this!
>
> -- 
> attila

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