Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | | Subject | Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers | | Date | Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:27:53 -0400 |
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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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