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RE: svn log "hangs"

From: Mark Phippard <MarkP_at_softlanding.com>
Date: 2004-11-05 21:24:37 CET

"Ray Johnson" <Rayj@ingenio.com> wrote on 11/05/2004 03:14:18 PM:

> Well that explains why it is *so* slow. The initial revision is from we
> imported the repository and has thousands of files in the revision. Is
> there a way to "kill" a revision? If I could somehow get rid of
> that initial revision things might not be so bad...
>
> However, I still don't understand why it has to check every file in the
> revision. I understand why would would want to if your doing a "svn log
> -v" which also reports all the files of each revision. But if your not
> using the -v option then only information about that file is returned.
> So why does it need to verify the paths for all the other files?

I imagine it is because it is viewed as a security hole to show you log
information about a revision if there are ANY files committed in that
revision to which you do not have read access.

The authz module is very useful, it is a shame to do something like this
which might make it unusable for a lot of people. I would like to see
some new configuration directive that would allow svn log to be able to
bypass these checks while retaining the rest of authz.

I realize that many people need this level of security, regardless of the
performance hit. So the current behavior probably should be the default.
However, a lot of us just want to enforce read-only access to certain
folders and certain users, and in some cases, we might want to remove read
access to the contents of certain files. That does not mean that we care
if someone can see the log info, especially at this price.

None of this bodes well for a future ACL feature, if this is any
indication what can happen to performance.

Mark

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