Re: [ANNOUNCE] svnrdump: A new dumper/ loader in trunk

Feldhacker, Chris <Feldhacker.Chris <at> principal.com> writes:
> Remote "dump" makes sense -- and I assume everything being dumped is
subject to the authorization/access
> control restrictions that have
been put into place on the server, yes? (A particular path or file
won't be
> included in the dump if the user doesn't have permission to
access it, right?)

Exactly. Since svnrdump works purely on the RA layer, authz should be
taken care of for free.

> Remote "load" seems scary -- How can I prevent my users from being
able to use this command? Is the original
> author of the dumped
revision preserved, or is the author set to the user doing the load?
Can users do
> anything else bad, like changing repo UUID?

Again, I expect that access control/ security is automatically taken
care of in the RA layer. `svnrdump load` is just like a user making
some changes and committing them one by one except the author and
timestamp in the dumpfile are preserved. Why would you want to block
this?

No, the UUID of the repository cannot be changed over the RA API.

(please CC me on followup emails; I'm not subscribed to the list)

-- Ram
Received on 2010-08-19 22:05:50 CEST