AW: RE: early reflections on subversion methodology

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Leon Zandman [mailto:lzandman@lode.nl]
> Gesendet: Montag, 1. August 2005 08:42
> An: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Betreff: RE: early reflections on subversion methodology
>
> > > That's the beauty - you can take the server and data inside
> > > of it and put whatever top end on it you want. But not at the
> > > server level.
> >
> > I think that one obvious way to implement what I am
> > suggesting is indeed in client tools.
>
> But then you cannot use different clients with the same repository.
> Ofcourse, within the boundaries of a company you can enforce employees
> to use specific (custom) client software, but it you decide make your
> repository publicly accessible (and maybe even writable) you can get
> into a lot of trouble when users use all sorts of different Subversion
> clients.
>

You can enforce the read-write policy through hooks which are server side, so this no big problem.
What other sort of problems could you get into? People creating a tag when all they really want is a branch? People checking out the wrong directory [respective a tag instead of a branch]? All those problems cannot be addressed by the client programm, no matter wether is knows what a branch is or wether it just sees a directory named "branches".

So people would still be free which client to use and it's up to them which concept they prefer. Some might need the support of a client, some can branch/tag/merge without assistance.

> Greetz,
>
> Leon Zandman
>
>
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regards

fg

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