From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261427AbVF1U3U (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:29:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261485AbVF1U3F (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:29:05 -0400 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.46]:10741 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261427AbVF1U2H (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:28:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20050628180157.GI12006@waste.org> References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <20050623235634.GC14426@waste.org> <20050624064101.GB14292@pasky.ji.cz> <20050624123819.GD9519@64m.dyndns.org> <20050628150027.GB1275@pasky.ji.cz> <20050628180157.GI12006@waste.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <62CF578B-B9DF-4DEA-8BAD-041F357771FD@mac.com> Cc: Petr Baudis , Christopher Li , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List , mercurial@selenic.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:27:53 -0400 To: Matt Mackall X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- I lost interest in "blade servers" when I found they didn't throw knives at people who weren't supposed to be in your machine room. -- Anthony de Boer