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Re: Delay syncing to mirror repositories causing issues

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:31:32 -0400

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:30:58AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> Note that this is also one of the cases where the selection of the
>> Apache license for Subversion, rather than GPL, means that Wandisco
>> can build a business plan on selling these commercially enhanced
>> versions of Subversion without ever publishing the code.....
>
> AFAIK they don't modify Subversion's code. Their solution proxys webdav
> traffic between Subversion clients and servers, like a man-in-the-middle.
> The licence of Subversion doesn't matter in this case.

I'd be..... really, really surprised by that. I'd expect the
pre-commit hooks, at least, to do some kind of verification of the
local server's state as the designated master node, to avoid the
split-brain situations. But since it's closed source, I don't have
access to it. Do you have a copy you can check on?
Received on 2011-08-15 16:32:05 CEST

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