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

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:56:15 -0400

On 08/19/2012 12:21 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> C. Michael Pilato wrote on Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 14:01:03 -0400:
>> 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
>
> I don't see any public or interlibrary API with /_readable/ in its name?
>

Sorry, I misremembered the names. "_display" was the suffix I was seeking,
as in svn_checksum_to_cstring_display().

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Enterprise Cloud Development

Received on 2012-08-20 14:57:32 CEST

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