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Re: [PATCH] pre-update and pre-getfile hook

From: Max Bowsher <maxb1_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2006-03-01 17:05:31 CET

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Mathias Weinert wrote:
> Referring to http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-02/0304.shtml Max Bowsher wrote:
>
>> The efficiency implications are major, and the extreme inelegance of
>> forcing the user to essentially do access control in two different ways,
>> just because of details of Subversion's internals, is quite unpleasant.
>> I realized I didn't have anything more productive to say than "This
>> scares me. I won't be involving myself in this feature", and left the
>> message well alone, hoping someone else would have something more useful
>> to say about it.
>
> I agree with you that now as we have per path access control for
> svnserve these hooks aren't as important as they've been. But on
> the other side they could be used for other things like logging,
> preventing people from checking out too much (e. g. root) as
> recently discussed in another thread or blocking certain IP
> addresses.
>
> What exactly do you mean with "The efficiency implications are
> major"? Would the hook significantly slow down things?

Many invocations of it would (as has been mentioned already).

However, of *greater* concern to me is the extreme inelegance of
dividing read-control between two separate hooks. If we implemented
this, I believe it would cause widespread confusion. We should NOT be
exposing the report vs. individual-get implementation detail in this case.

Max.

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