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List:       subversion-users
Subject:    Re: Questions
From:       Daniel Shahaf <d.s () daniel ! shahaf ! name>
Date:       2011-06-13 15:00:58
Message-ID: 20110613150058.GA11732 () daniel3 ! local
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Ryan Schmidt wrote on Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 04:06:21 -0500:
> On Jun 13, 2011, at 03:55, Richard Cavell wrote:
> > 2.  Someone suggested creating a repository by installing DropBox on every \
> > computer and doing: 
> > svnadmin create ~/DropBox
> > 
> > Does this seem like a workable idea (for those of us who do not know how to set \
> > up an svnserver or apache httpd)?
> 
> I would suggest you not do that.

This amounts to rsync'ing $REPOS_DIR, which we don't support (and in
fact may cause the duplicated copy to be corrupt).

> That would allow any user to do anything to your repository (bypassing any security \
> restrictions or hooks you may want to use) -- even delete the entire repository \
> with one or two keystrokes (intentionally or accidentally). Set up svnserve or \
> httpd instead. The book explains how. 
> http://svnbook.org/


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