From: Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
To: mercurial@selenic.com
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:32:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050629063233.GE16872@intevation.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62CF578B-B9DF-4DEA-8BAD-041F357771FD@mac.com>
(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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-29 6:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-22 22:24 Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Jeff Garzik
2005-06-22 22:40 ` Dave Jones
2005-06-22 22:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-22 22:52 ` Dave Jones
2005-06-23 0:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-25 3:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-25 17:29 ` Dave Jones
2005-06-22 23:09 ` Greg KH
2005-06-22 23:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 0:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 0:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 1:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 1:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 2:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 2:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 3:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 3:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 5:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 5:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 6:20 ` Greg KH
2005-06-23 6:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 7:11 ` Greg KH
2005-06-23 7:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 7:38 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-23 8:18 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-06-23 8:30 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-06-23 14:31 ` Horst von Brand
2005-06-22 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 0:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 1:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 7:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 15:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 0:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 2:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 2:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 3:52 ` Adam Kropelin
2005-06-23 4:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 5:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 6:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 6:07 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-23 7:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-23 16:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-23 8:01 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-06-23 4:23 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-23 12:25 ` Dave Airlie
2005-06-23 23:56 ` Mercurial vs " Matt Mackall
2005-06-24 6:41 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-24 12:38 ` Christopher Li
2005-06-28 15:00 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-28 15:10 ` Andrew Thompson
2005-06-28 15:35 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-28 21:54 ` Horst von Brand
2005-06-28 18:47 ` Christopher Li
2005-06-29 0:12 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-28 18:01 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-28 20:27 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-28 20:45 ` Sean
2005-06-28 22:14 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-28 22:23 ` Sean
2005-06-28 22:47 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-28 22:49 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-28 22:59 ` Sean
2005-06-28 23:25 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-28 23:37 ` Sean
2005-06-29 0:08 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-29 0:25 ` Sean
2005-06-29 3:53 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-29 10:27 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-06-28 23:29 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-29 6:32 ` Thomas Arendsen Hein [this message]
2005-06-24 13:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-06-24 13:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-06-24 13:46 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2005-06-24 12:19 ` Christopher Li
2005-06-24 13:57 ` Kevin Smith
2005-06-24 18:03 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-28 15:07 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-28 15:15 ` Sven Verdoolaege
2005-06-28 15:34 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-28 16:50 ` Cygwin and Native MS Windows (was: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers) Kevin Smith
2005-06-28 16:51 ` Cogito vs. Git " Kevin Smith
2005-06-28 20:54 ` Petr Baudis
2005-06-24 13:16 ` Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Matthias Urlichs
2005-06-24 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-24 19:25 ` John W. Linville
2005-06-24 22:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-06-24 21:11 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-06-24 22:08 ` Should "git-read-tree -m -u" delete files? Junio C Hamano
2005-06-24 22:45 ` Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Joel Becker
2005-06-24 23:08 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-27 18:31 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-27 19:05 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-06-27 19:40 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-27 19:51 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2005-06-27 20:51 ` Matt Mackall
2005-06-27 21:53 ` Ed Tomlinson
2005-07-08 15:18 ` Amin Azez
2005-07-11 8:56 ` Amin Azez
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