On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 06:10:35PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > I'd call it a DoS if you can commit such a file and can't later 'svn rm > URL' it.
You cannot 'svnsync' the repository anymore, even if you rm the URL. So you can DoS a master/slave setup and force the slave to be out-of-date with no way to catch up until the revision is obliterated or repaired. > Or we could forbid newlines in pathnames. The only problem with that is > that the 1.0 API promised they would work... but if no one uses that, > I'd be fine with calling it an erratum and disallowing it henceforth. I think we should disallow it. There are too many unforeseen side effects. I'm not even sure if I've already seen all failure modes that can result from this.
