RE: RA properties (was: Re: one more "Greg issue" :-))
From: Peter Vogel <pvogel_at_arsin.com>
Date: 2001-01-01 21:18:28 CET
Can someone help me out a little? What do RA
Thanks,
-- Peter A. Vogel Manager, Configuration Management Arsin Corporation 4800 Great America Parkway Suite 425, Santa Clara, CA 95054 > -----Original Message----- > From: Karl Fogel [mailto:kfogel@galois.collab.net] > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 10:43 AM > To: Greg Stein > Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org > Subject: Re: RA properties (was: Re: one more "Greg issue" :-)) > > > Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes: > > > Oh, I remember that. I'm just realizing now that it makes me all > > > quesy... > > > > What part? That an RA might need to store data, or that it > gets stored in > > the WC? > > Just that there are implementation-specific cookies the network layer > needs to store on the client side (the WC being the only place to > store it there, obviously). The distinction I'm making is between > data that _any_ conceivable implementation must use, such as revision > numbers and paths, versus data that only certain implementations use. > > I'm not totally, unbearably quesy at it, just mildly quesy. I'm sorry > I haven't made some sort of non-vague response about this yet. I > thought I was going to work through the holidays, but various personal > obligations made that unrealistic, so I haven't been full-time this > week. :-( Will be able to think about this issue uninterruptedly on > Tuesday, though. > > > I haven't even started on my crusade to get rid of the SVN > equivalent for > > .cvspass. IMO, that information should be stored in the WC > rather than > > depending on information associated the user who happens to > be logged in and > > running the command. The SVN "rc" file can contain > defaults, but the actual > > values used (could be different from the defaults!) should > be stored in the > > WC. And since those are (also) RA-specific values, I'm not > sure how we can > > avoid the basic concept of private RA properties. Now... > where we put > > those... doesn't matter to me. > > Oh, wow, *completely* with you on that one. Authentication > information should be stored in the WC that resulted from successful > authentication. > > And this is a good argument for the unavoidability of storing > implementation-specific data (translation: "data Karl isn't intimately > familiar with") in the WC. :-) > > Yes, I'm seeing your point... >Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:19 2006 |
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