Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla undo feature request

[John Meinel]

I'll vote for this one too. When using the cygwin port of tla I get into 
the problem that when a Windows program saves a file, it defaults to 775 
in cygwin. What I did was create a script (attached) which just looks 
for metadata modified files, and sets them to 644. I try to run this 
before I commit, but sometimes I want a file that has 755 permissions, 
and this does the wrong thing.

'tla undo --metadata' would be a much nicer way of doing all this. And I 
think it goes well with the tla undo -- <files> patch.
I would argue we should probably allow tla undo --metadata -- <files>.

John
=:->

Robert Anderson wrote:

> I'm in a hairy situation that I don't fully understand while
> doing a star-merge where a bunch of files are ending up with
> changed metadata, even though none of the applied patches contain
> metadata deltas. But, it is kind of irrelevant that they don't.
> The point is that I want to commit all the changes except the
> metadata changes, no matter if I understand where they come from
> or not.
>
> Now maybe someone can conjure up a one- or two-liner to do this,
> but wouldn't it be nice if I could do:
>
> tla undo --metadata
>
> and clean all the metadata changes out of my tree? Yes, it
> would. It would be especially nice since some of the metadata
> altered file also have content modification that I want to keep.
> Scripting this with some kind of "undo files with metadata
> changes" would be wrong.
>
> Bob
>
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