Fwd: [Fedora-infrastructure-list] New package version control

[Jeffrey C. Ollie]

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 23:10 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 22:33 -0700, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > >> A few of us, warren, mmcgrath, and I are designing a new system of
> > >> version control for the packages in Core and Extras.  The main page of
> > >> requirements and some pros and cons of various VCS's are listed on:
> > >> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/VersionControl/
> > >>
> > 
> > "con" for subversion is listed that auth must be through DAV, but a
> > "pro" for mercurial is that it can do ssh.  Just an fyi, but subversion
> > works GREAT over ssh (via the svn+ssh:// uri), and projects like mythtv
> > use this to separate anon checkout (http) with developer access (ssh).
> > 
> > Granted, you're still limited to "full repository" access or no access
> > with ssh since svn handles everything in its own database format.
> 
> Yeah, that's pretty much a blocker for using svn+ssh.

Why not use HTTPS and WebDAV for secure access to a SVN repository?  SSL
client certificates are already being generated/maintained for plague
client access, why not use those certs for accessing the SVN repository?

Jeff

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