From: MenTaLguY <mentalg@geocities.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 18:57:02 -0500 (EST)

Re: questions about kgicon and libggi

On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Jon M. Taylor wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> 
> > Steve Cheng wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> > > 
> > > > TO DEVELOPERS:
> > > > When you commit something - make sure that the permissions
> > > > are correct! All files should have 0644 permissions, and
> > > > for directories and scripts, or that with 0111.
> > > 
> > > You mean CVS tries to use my permissions instead of a default???
> > > ARGGH!!!
> > 
> > Yes, CVS can be a weird animal sometimes. ;)
> 
> 	CVS is not my favorite utility |-<.  I hope that the prcs project
> implements pserver capabilities soon.  The best thing would be to have a
> "RCS filesystem", which could be mounted and shared live remotely (like
> NFS) but would also have revision control capabilities, like a special
> version of rm which would roll back revisions and a special version of cp
> which would do diff-merges instead of copying files over each other. 

That'd probably be reasonably easy to do with the userfs stuff.  Wouldn't
need special versions of the commands, either.  Writes could be interally
line-buffered and diffed, and unlinks could stick in a link to an older
version from someplace, if there was one.

-=MenTaLguY=-