(repost to all lists who received the original mail) * Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> [20050628 22:28]: > On Jun 28, 2005, at 14:01:57, Matt Mackall wrote: > >Everything in Mercurial is an append-only log. A transaction journal > >records the original length of each log so that it can be restored on > >failure. > > Does this mean that (excepting the "undo" feature) one could set the > ext3 "append-only" attribute on the repository files to avoid losing > data due to user account compromise? This will break Mercurial's journaling. If 'hg pull' fails it truncates the already appended-to files to the last known state. Thomas -- Email: thomas@intevation.de http://intevation.de/~thomas/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Jun 29 16:33:23 2005
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