On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 03:20, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28164-7-23 05:59 , Brandon Allbery wrote: > > You're reading backwards. *Someone* thinks so, which is what the OP is > > complaining about; see http://trac.macports.org/ticket/29692 . (In > short: > > they aren't fixing svn checkout, because they think svn is evil. I'm > > somewhat boggled by the comment in question; if they don't like svn, why > is > > the port using it?) > > That's not an entirely accurate summary of the maintainer's position. > It's more like "svn over HTTP is evil, and svn over HTTPS is > significantly less evil." > As I read it, over https was only slightly less evil; their real complaint was the lack of any kind of checksum. (Which I don't actually take that seriously; if the VCS doesn't validate that it got the actual files it requested then it's fundamentally broken, and if the version it requested isn't the same as the one intended then either the VCS is fundamentally *really* broken or someone has been going behind its back and needs their fingers broken.) -- brandon s allbery [email protected] wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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