Humm, Markus wrote on Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 12:13:28 +0100: > Hello, > > thanks for your answer. > > While it is nice that you have concerns about my security in case > I should have to deal with malicious servers, I would prefer to have > a choice. Maybe some setting wich allows me, based on the server URL > (or if that's too complicated for a start), to allow ../ in local
I agree. While the default should be to disallow any modifications above the working copy root, I don't see a reason not to make it an opt-in feature. > What do I need to do to get this feature? Where do I need to lobby for > it? The best thing you could do is head over to the dev@ list, drive a design discussion, get consensus on it, and ideally also be willing to implement it (or to hire someone to do so): http://subversion.apache.org/contributing#code-design Alternatively, you could record your request in our issue tracker: http://subversion.apache.org/reporting-issues.html