On Mar 21, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
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> On 21 Mar 2011, at 11:20, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>> SqueakSource is simply a WebDAV server. All the versioning logic is local,
>> implemented in Monticello, so allowing overwrites is not really
>> SqueakSource's "fault". Besides, even if SqueakSource disallowed overwriting
>> a version (which it probably should) nothing would prevent somebody else to
>> upload a *new* version that did something bad.
>
> Yes versioning/naming is local and distributed, that is a feature. One cannot
> rely on the name alone.
> However, it is most certainly a bug that a server happily overwrites existing
> versions, a version control system should never do that.
>
> Your other points a valid, of course.
>
>
I think that "security" was not meant in the sense of accidentally loading
wrong code. More in the sense that one could just
delete all your code. Even though we have backups of the SqueakSource
filesystem, you don't want that, as it would be a
mess to repair.
Marcus
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INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.
