consider preserving group of file across shelve/unshelve

[LaMont Jones]

there are places where group ownership can be a concern, and bzr is managing the directory tree. shelving and unshelving a file can change the group ownership of the unshelved file. If it's not too hard to preserve that, it would be wonderful.

thanks,
lamont

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

That sounds reasonable. I guess it's not specific to shelve (though that may be where you notice it) but all operations that update the working tree that should do this?

Are there any cases where people wouldn't want it to match the group of the old file?

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Just so you know, any bzr operation - like merge - will write new files
rather than edit existing ones.

So fixing this isn't shelve specific;)

-Rob

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

2009/8/21 Robert Collins <email address hidden>:
> So fixing this isn't shelve specific;)

Right, we would presumably need to stat the existing file and copy
it's group, probably in treetransform.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>