Hi everyone,

I run the servers hosting an intranet, a couple of services and an external websites for my club at university.
I'd like to back up all the config files to some version control system to keep track of changes, in case one of my colleagues breaks something. The idea is to keep snapshots and then just roll back the required file in case something happens.
Now to the main issue: How does a version control system handle file permissions and ownership? Does it keep them? Does it set the permissions of the user who committed the last change? These are important questions as we have multiple daemons with different users...

Cheers,
DodoFXP

Comparison of revision control software

For example SVN do it, but permissions can not be changed later. After some small test I see that SVN don't do it automatically.

Hi eSelix,

I had overseen that chart in my first round of google/wiki.

How come no FOSS really supports permissions/ownership? I need to be sure that the file is owned by the same user and has the same permission bits set after a revert. Doing this by hand is annoying...

DodoFXP