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Re: Proposal: Change repository's UUID over RA layer

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:03:10 -0400

Back up here.

Why would an admin install a hook to allow changing a UUID? Why would
a UUID be allowed to change over time? If a UUID is supposed to be
changed, then why wouldn't that admin just do it himself? Why does
this have to be allowed remotely?

I'm sorry, but this whole "feature" just seems misguided. The UUID is
supposed to be stable and unchanging. We use it to determine what
repository we're talking to. It isn't supposed to change from one day
to the next.

-g

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 09:02, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> On 08/06/2010 04:30 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> Yes, a pre-uuid-change hook (and disallowing a UUID change unless it exists)
>> is one option.
>>
>> But that means the logic lives in libsvn_repos, so you have to think how
>> 'svnadmin setuuid' would interact with it...
>
> We just follow the pattern that already exists. By default, 'svnadmin
> setuuid' would bypass the hooks. (In generally, I think it is assumed that
> anyone who can run 'svnadmin' on a repository directly can also modify its
> hooks.) And then we add --use-pre-uuid-change-hook and
> --use-post-uuid-change-hook options.
>
> See 'svnadmin setrevprop' / svn_repos_fs_change_rev_prop3() and 'svnadmin
> load'  / svn_repos_load_fs3() for prior art.
>
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> C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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>
Received on 2010-08-06 16:03:51 CEST

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