Nice, please stop saying "I don't like X" everywhere.
Stefan Sperling wrote on Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:09:06 +0100: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 09:25:11PM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > This is a very large and longstanding issue for me and others, and has > > led to clients of mine rejecting Subversion outright. And it looks > > like a legacy of Subversion's re-implementation of CVS, described as > > "CVS done right". CVS security was even worse. > > Whenever you bring this up (and you do that *a lot*), you always gloss > over improvements made since. Namely the default behaviour of asking > the user for consent before saving a password in plaintext, and the > addition of gnome-keyring and kwallet password stores with encryption. > Note that the gpg-agent branch will also get another chance after all. > > And yes, I know that none of these apply to RHEL4 systems your clients are > using, but that's beside the point. > > I'd be glad if you mentioned these improvements when telling others about > this misfeature (yes, I also think it was wrong, but there was no better > alternative at the time), at least somewhere in the fine print. > Otherwise you make it sound as if the project didn't care, which isn't true. > > Thanks, > Stefan
