Re: project vs. repository

On 1/13/2011 10:37 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> David Weintraub wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:19:54 -0500:
>> Are you using file:// URLs? You should either be using svnserve or
>> Apache httpd as your Subversion server. Fortunately, you can easily do
>> that without having to do anything with your repository. Even when I
>> have a personal Subversion repository and I'm the only user, I still
>> use svnserve.
>>
>
> I'm curious: why?
>
> Is it because you need authz, or run svnserve as a different user, or
> because you prefer to have a one-stop way to stop everything from
> accessing the repository, ...?

A big reason is so you or someone else can't delete or corrupt the whole
repository (accidentally or otherwise) because all your programs have
direct write access at the filesystem level.

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   Les Mikesell
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