Re: Suggestion for special file storage in 1.0

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 13:37, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> svn:construct -- If this property is set on a file, that file is
> considered special. The text of the property is
> a command which should be executed upon
> checkout, which is expected to create the file.
> See below for details.

-1. It's horribly platform-specific and a security nightmare.

A Unix-only shop where clients only talk to trusted repositories might
be okay with this feature, but symlink support should definitely not
have the second constraint, and should probably not have the first
constraint. (We can't make symlinks on Windows, but we might be able to
make an alias, which would be honored by at least some programs.)

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Received on Fri Oct 11 21:10:02 2002