Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 10:06:32 (+0100), Claus Henriksen wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: what's to stop a developer from nuking the repository?
>
> Has anybody made a long wishlist of things to be changed in pserver? 

There is only one thing that can be changed:  the PSERVER code should be
entirely removed from CVS.

The the only sane alternative is to simplify it to the point that it
refuses to work unless the client is doing a read-only operation.

> I think the idea behind pserver is ok

No, it's not even a tiny bit "OK".  It is the most lame excuse one can
imagine for any client/server protocol on a public network, especially
in this day.

CVS pserver shouldn't even be used for anonymous read-only access, at
least not if you care about the integrity of the data you send or
receive, though that particular issue is really more a matter of finger
pointing.  One can use RSH over a public network, but at least if a CVS
user uses RSH and then suffers as a result it's not the fault of CVS,
but rather the fault of the user having used RSH.

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