Re: Subversion Exception!

> On Dec 13, 2018, at 10:53 AM, Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
>
>> On 12/13/18 10:45 AM, Branko Čibej wrote:
>> Uh. I forgot about the malfunction handler. However this doesn't really
>> help, other than putting possibly sensitive paths into the crash handler
>> info? We really shouldn't do it this way, users *will* just copy and
>> paste the output tot he 'net.
>
> Ahem. What Grandpa *meant* to say was:
>
> "Oh, cool! So there _is_ a way to report the non-canonical path.
> Thanks for figuring this out, Julian! Unfortunately, it comes at a
> cost, namely that of revealing potentially sensitive paths in the output
> which I strongly suspect will get copied and paste to the 'net. If we
> could mitigate that part of it, this might turn out to be truly beneficial."
>
> ;-)

Honestly, it seems like complete FUD to me and trying to save face or just be obstinate.

FWIW, I agree with Stefan on all of this. We should not be doing abort from a library. Whether TSVN could do more to avoid it seems like a separate issue. I do not see why the library cannot just return a useful error and allow the caller to handle it.

Mark
Received on 2018-12-13 17:09:24 CET