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Re: [PATCH] expose svn_repos_replay via the RA API, Take 2

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: 2005-11-17 01:26:42 CET

Garrett Rooney wrote:
> On 11/16/05, Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> wrote:
[...]
>>>The authz support bungles the case
>>>of a directory copied from a location you aren't allowed to see, it
>>>needs to recurse into the directory adding its contents, since you
>>>can't expect the caller to have access to the contents.
>>
>>Er... I don't know about this stuff either, but it strikes me that if the
>>caller is not authorised to see data in a particular area then you should not
>>send that data to the caller. (Perhaps abort if you discover that is the
>>case.) Maybe I'm completely misunderstanding, in which case ignore me.
[...]
> Clearly, if a file is copied from the private section to the public
> one people are now allowed to see the file's contents, as of the
> revision that it's copied. [... so you have to send full text ...]

Duh! Thanks for the explanation. (And for the answers I've snipped.)

> Ironically, this logic will probably prove useful for implementing the
> "replay only a particular subtree" kind of thing [...]

Cool.

- Julian

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