Good day
I have Subversion version 1.5.1.32289 on a windows XP host (server and
client tools). I'm building a system which will use the niftiness of
Subversion hooks to do some of the work for us (currently working on a
post-commit.exe). In the course of testing, I've created and destroyed
repositories, removed cached auth information from my profile, and so forth.
The following oddity appeared today, which I would like to bring to the
developers' attention, *in case* it's a problem (perhaps there is some
perfectly rational explanation for this, I don't know?)
Anyway, the scenario was as follows:
I have a repo called "helloworld", which I can get to via
svn://myhostname/helloworld. Some time in the not too distant past (last
week-ish, iirc), I cleared out my cached auth informaction under
%PROFILE%/Application Data/Subversion, which should have effectively meant
that I would have to log in to the server at the next SVN server-side
"transaction" (for lack of a better word) -- ie the next "svn up" or "svn
commit". Now, I managed to do the following, *without* logging in, in the
base of a checked out version of this project:
svn mkdir newdir
echo "rubbish" > newdir\newfile
echo "more rubbish" > newdir\newfile2
svn add newdir\newfile newdir\newfile2
svn commit
<at this point, the svn client spawns gvim, i put in a message, and the svn
client transmits the change to the repository WITHOUT ERROR>
Then, I did:
svn del newdir
svn commit
<enter comments, save comments, svn commit goes through just fine>
A few minutes later, however, just for chuckles, I issued "svn up" in the
same dir, and was presented with a request for a password for my username,
which I duly entered, and I was authorised. The update went through after
that with no hassle.
So now, since I hadn't inspected my auth cache before all of this, I'm left
with one of two scenarios:
1) I had authorised some prior time, and that's why my svn adds and svn dels
could commit; however, if this is the case, how come I'm presented with an
auth request again?
2) I was allowed to commit changes to an SVN repository *without
authorisation*.
(1) presents a minor glitch which just confuses the user; (2) should be of
much greater interest to SVN devs. So far, I've been unable to replicate the
problem. I know this doesn't really help all that much (sorry!), but I have
tried simple stuff like deleting my auth and trying again (requires auth
before any of the commits outlined above). I also don't really expect anyone
to get all excited and do something about this -- it's just a report in the
hope that perhaps someone with more knowledge of the internals of SVN might
be able to think of how I triggered this behaviour, and perhaps fix it (: On
the other hand, is there any way that my post-commit hook could have caused
this? At present, it doesn't do much, simply writing out the arguments that
it received to a file...
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Received on 2008-08-20 18:06:01 CEST