Re: [Monotone-devel] newbie question - SHA1 vs serials

[K. Richard Pixley]

Jon Bright wrote:

> > Situation A:  Intellectual property.  My company has a policy wherein 
> > all work must be done on company machines on company sites.  I want 
> > to allow public key access within the company, but none others.  Note 
> > that company does have remote sites.  As sits, I can't use monotone 
> > to accept company changes while rejecting changes those same users 
> > might attempt to make from home.  I can do this with firewalls and 
> > such, if I have access to them, but not with monotone.
>
> Out of interest, is there another SCM system which does achieve this, 
> or is this more of a wishlist item?  If there is, how do they do that? 
> (I'm presuming they're not just replicating firewall functionality - 
> if they were, there'd seem little point.)

Any of the systems which work through apache have all of apache's 
authentication facilities available.  For subversion, this seems to be 
one of the big reasons for using the (slower) apache based approach as 
it seems to be pretty much the only authentication subversion currently has.

Clearcase multi site basically just won't accept packets from unknown 
sources and basic clearcase uses standard unix local network 
authentication mechanisms just like a standard unix file system.

Those are the two which come to mind immediately.

Basically, monotone seems to have been designed specifically in order to 
avoid the need for access to network infrastructure and/or root access 
and the like.  While this exactly fits many free software development 
situations, it's near backward for most corporate development.  IMO, a 
superior system would support either structure.

--rich