On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Chad Perrin <c...@apotheon.net> wrote:

> My understanding is that the concern raised was about copying (i.e.
> shell command cp, or maybe scp), not syncing.
>

It would only be copied if someone copies their checkout db file, which
would be a highly unusual thing to do. Of course, when copying your whole
home dir or some such it would be copied along with anything else, but
there is _certainly_ more sensitive info under one's home dir than the list
of fossil commands one called while under a given checkout. i.e. i don't
personally consider this to be any sort of security thread, but... there
are those with a better eye for this sort of thing. For example, i'm not
going to add saving of command arguments (only the command name) because
BohwaZ pointed out the case of passing a password to the commands which
take a URL, and i do not want to special-case any of the arguments to
handle that (there's always another corner case which will slip by...).

In any case, this feature is very low on the prio list, and it's still not
clear whether it should really be added or allowed to die off quietly.
While i find it an interesting feature, it's certainly not vital and it
does have a number of touchy questions associated with it. Opinions are of
course welcomed.

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----- stephan beal
http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
http://gplus.to/sgbeal
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