Ryan Schmidt wrote on Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 04:06:21 -0500: > On Jun 13, 2011, at 03:55, Richard Cavell wrote: > > 2. Someone suggested creating a repository by installing DropBox on every > > computer and doing: > > > > svnadmin create ~/DropBox > > > > Does this seem like a workable idea (for those of us who do not know how to > > set up an svnserver or apache httpd)? > > I would suggest you not do that.
This amounts to rsync'ing $REPOS_DIR, which we don't support (and in fact may cause the duplicated copy to be corrupt). > That would allow any user to do anything to your repository (bypassing any > security restrictions or hooks you may want to use) -- even delete the entire > repository with one or two keystrokes (intentionally or accidentally). Set up > svnserve or httpd instead. The book explains how. > > http://svnbook.org/
