[fetchmail-devel] Re: FYI: Changes in SVN since 6.2.9-rc9

[Graham W. <gr...@mk...>]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:45:52PM +0530, Sunil Shetye wrote:
> Does this mean that anonymous checkout is going to be stopped? There
> are links on http://fetchmail.berlios.de/ pointing to the repository
> meant for this.
> 
> It might be better to allow anonymous HTTP read-only access to trunk
> and to a few select tags (like the release tags). Access to the
> remaining tags, branches, as well as commits to the full tree via HTTP
> can then be stopped.

The main reason for me wanting to disable HTTP access is because I think
the user management issues will be easier if committers have a shell
account on the machine, rather than just having access via HTTP.

This means that continuing to allow read-only checkouts via HTTP is not
an issue for me.

> Note that the svn+ssh protocol does not allow anonymous read-only
> access as it requires a valid login account on the system.

It's also possible to run svnserve to allow read-only checkouts (which
is happening now). In the end, I'll probably choose either HTTP or
svnserve for read-only checkouts.

-- 
gram