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

[Ben Burns]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:52:41 -0400, Aaron Bentley
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> You may have incorrect metadata in your revlib.  Incorrect file
> permissions on library revisions aren't currently detected by the
> corruption-detection routines.  I had some spooky permissions problems a
> while back, and that turned out to be the cause.

I've noticed this too... as you say, tla does not currently check file
mode.  If you change the file mode on a file in your working directory
that is hard linked to your revision library, the change can go
undetected by tla (at least on some systems I have tried.).   It makes
sense to me to add the file mode to the inode sigs...  after doing
this, and rebuilding my revision libraries, I haven't seen any files
in the revision library with the wrong file permission go unnoticed by
tla.