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Re: svn commit comment for "svn log <file>" is not shown, if the commit includes any files I don't have read access for

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:41:13 -0500

Julian Foad wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 11:21 -0500, C. Michael Pilato wrote:

[...]

>> * A log message in which paths A and B are changed might actually mention
>> paths A and B by potentially-sensitive name.
>
> I think Subversion's assumption is based not only on a concern about the
> paths, but also on a concern that the log message is likely to talk
> about the content of the files that X shouldn't be allowed to see, so X
> shouldn't be allowed to read the message.

Indeed. Good point.

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