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SubjectRe: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers
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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

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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

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