Re: Mixed Unix-Windows development

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 14:35, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon_at_freemail.ru> wrote:
> Greetings, Tom Browder!

Greetings to you, too, Andrey!

>>> Second... just to say that... svn+ssh is not very good idea, really. Requires
>>> too much care to manage. My personal opinion.
>
>> Care to elaborate?  I do agree the book gives not much help for an
>> admin person wanting to use this method, but it seems easy to manage
>> once set up correctly.
>
> It's, very roughly, the same as using the file:// access method, as I
> understand it.
> You can just apply all issues of file:// to svn+ssh:// and re-read them with
> that in mind. The need of sane umask, the DIRECT ACCESS to the repository
> structure, and so on.
> If you do not have any special requirements for developers to have terminal
> access to the host managing SVN repository, you better use anything other than
> ssh tunnel.

On more reflection, you're correct. I've been using it since last
year after we converted from CVS and we have just a few users sharing
a repository. I went that route because it seemed so much easier
than setting up http access.

Regards,

-Tom

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