On Oct 22, 2004, at 3:58 PM, David F. Newman wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 15:15, Scott Palmer wrote:
>>
>> Um, that's *MY* point. :)
>> Subversion doesn't do immutable copies. Apache can be configured to
>> work around this issue. I simply think that *Subversion* should
>> support immutable copies as I think it would satisfy many people that
>> are looking for a kind of tag that Subversion currently doesn't have.
>
> Just because the subversion server that runs inside apache has more
> features than the subversion server that runs outside apache doesn't
> mean that it is a hack done with apache to work around the issue. It's
> still a feature of subversion and not apache.
Dang it... I'm not supposed to be replying anymore... :)
I disagree.
In this case it isn't subversion that has the feature at all. The
feature is handled by apache. It's a subtle point, but a point none the
less. The url I use to access the repository shouldn't have anything
to do with what is or is not allowed. That's just plain bad design.
> If you don't allow a
> directory to be updated than as far as I'm concerned it is immutable.
Right.. but subversion doesn't let you do that with svnserve or file:
urls. You need to install a 3rd party product called Apache - which
drags in a whole bloody web server, just for source control.
> The point is that subversion is letting you make that decision instead
> of telling you how it's going to be.
No it isn't. It is absolutely telling me how it's going to be. It's
saying "tough, subversion doesn't do this. You need to install Apache,
an entirely different product, and access the repository in a different
way, because the repository doesn't support what you want at all. You
need some extra layer on top of subversion to do that for you. That's
how it's going to be! You can forget about using file: or svn: access
methods, and you can forget about not installing Apache, now you have
no choice."
Well it would be like that if the commit-hooks don't work. :)
I'm still not sure of how they work. How does a commit hook run when I
access the repository through a file: url?? Does it mean I have to
have python installed on every computer I access the repository from if
I use the supplied python script? (Which would be completely
unacceptable to me.) Do they work any differently if I use svnserve?
Scott
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Received on Fri Oct 22 22:34:48 2004