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Re: [Issue 4124] New - Give servers sufficient means to disallow commits from clients based on version numbers

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:07:34 +0200

On 17.08.2012 20:01, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> On 08/17/2012 12:43 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> Stefan Sperling wrote on Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 18:24:03 +0200:
>>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:14:31PM -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>>> 4. something else?
>>> 4. Marshall the version string before sending it across svn://,
>>> escaping unsupported characters somehow in a reversible way,
>>> and unescape them before passing them to hooks?
>>> I.e. use something like strnvis() but adapted to the
>>> restrictions of the svn:// protocol.
> Yeah, I forgot to add that I was thinking about this approach, too. I'm not
> familiar with strnvis(), but I assume it's similar to what we do with our
> checksum API _readable() variants (where 'A' is 0x41 and represented as as
> "41")?
>
>> 5. Require the version string and client name to match
>> /^[A-Za-z0-9-]+$/, and embed them directly as part of a capability
>> name (so: capabilities might be named client-version-tsvn-1dot7dot0)
> I'll give the honor of treating this suggestion as a serious one. And then
> the dishonor of a hearty -1. :-)

Why? It's essentially the same as 4., just with a different and
higher-level marshalling.

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