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Re: problem revealed by issue #2398 (server-side assertion)

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2006-02-16 03:03:45 CET

Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Julian Foad wrote:
>
>
>> * (definitely) Data coming over a network connection.
>> * (? probably) Data read from the ".svn" admin area.
>>
>> The decision to treat the second of those as "data under user control" is not
>> obvious.
>>
>>
> I think .svn is data under user control. A corrupt WC admin area can
> cause an error that the user has to cope with herself, but not a crash.
>
We've always told users not to fiddle with the contents of .svn. Also I
think that, whilst a server crash is obviously unacceptable, a client
crash due to people fiddling with stuff we told them not to fiddle with
/migh/ be.

-- Brane

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