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List:       bitkeeper-users
Subject:    Re: [Bitkeeper-users] working with the clone of a clone?
From:       "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday () mindspring ! com>
Date:       2004-07-31 17:05:26
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.60.0407311302530.4846 () dell ! enoriver ! com
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On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Satish Balay wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>> given a local-master on, say, another partition or system that i couldn't
>> clone with hard links, i could have user1 make a (regular, non-hard-link)
>> clone for his personal use.  now, say user2 happens to work in the same
>> partition as user1.  user2 could then clone from user1's repo using hard links
>> (to save space, of course), then immediately reparent his (user2) repo to the
>> local-master for all future work.  so how does this affect user1 and user2's
>> independence?
>
> Nope - you can't cross 'user' permission boundary with hard links. In
> my example user1-clone1 and user1-clone2 are both owned by 'user1'
> (with appropriate user1 permissions)
>
> I guess this just helps in case a single user need to work with may clones.

duh ... of course.  silly me, given that hard links will naturally 
share exactly the same file attributes.  (whacks forehead here.)

rday
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