On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 17:16, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> So, I found (with some helpful hints from Robert who caught the final
>> nail in the coffin) a good reason why we really can't run a
>> git-cvsserver globally.
>
>> Any user can point their cvs client at the repository. And check out
>> an arbitrary branch, tag *or individual commit*. Doing so will create
>> a 50Mb sqlite database on the server with cache information about that
>> head.
>
> I'm still wondering why we don't simply lobotomize git-cvsserver to
> refuse requests to check out anything except the active branch tips.
> It's only a Perl script. I could probably hack it in an hour,
> there are those here who could do it in ten minutes.
Yeah, that would not be a bad idea - if someone can do it who feels
comfortable doing it :-)
I could probably hack it up as well, but I wouldn't trust myself to
have convered all the bases.
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