On 2/22/06, Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> 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.
It seems to me that there are several ways this problem can come about
for which an administrator could plausibly want different policies.
Wanting to prevent accidental checkouts of the root by users who don't
understand the repository organization seems like something almost
every Subversion installation would want to do. If the protection was
done in a way that wasn't too confusing to new users, I'd say it
should be on by default.
Wanting to prevent root checkouts by search engine robots seems more
like a site-by-site decision.
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Received on Thu Feb 23 01:11:13 2006