On 2/22/06, Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> wrote:
> On 2/22/06, Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> wrote:
> > How would people feel about some mechanism for stopping update reports
> > rooted at particular directories? It might at least prevent the
> > accidental foot shooting you get when an inexperienced user first
> > tries their hand at a svn checkout, and that would be a nice step in
> > the right direction.
>
> This seems to me like a pretty obvious hazard of the way Subversion
> repositories are laid out. I think it would make sense to have
> something which would help people avoid doing it by accident, as long
> as it didn't prevent them from doing it on purpose.
>
> Say, a property which makes 'svn checkout' print a message and get a
> confirmation interactively from the user, or pass a '--force' flag?
Honestly, I don't care one way or another if they can --force it or
not. Checking out trees that large puts an unacceptable amount of
strain on a public resource in this case, I just want to be able to
stop them from making silly mistakes that require administrator effort
to block, and reserve the admin effort for the cases where people are
actually doing this kind of thing on purpose. If they can add --force
and make it work, that's nice, but it's not really a showstopper IMO.
-garrett
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Received on Wed Feb 22 22:57:48 2006