Re: Ways to keep users from checking out too much.

C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Garrett Rooney wrote:
>
>
>>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.
>
>
> Um... aren't you the guy that just implemented the equivalent of
> 'svnadmin dump' over the RA layer? Does that not generate a similar
> level of system strain?

Sorry! That's got a good chance of reading like, "You can't complain
because you're a troublemaker of the same flavor!"

What I mean is simply, "There are probably lots of ways to put strain on
a Subversion server. Which of them are you wanting to block, and if not
all of them, why not?"

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