On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/7/30 David Weintraub <qazw...@gmail.com>: >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Ryan Schmidt >> <subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> wrote: >> >>> The .svn directories needn't be a security hole; you can configure your web >>> server to >>> not serve their contents, or even not acknowledge their existence. In my >>> httpd.conf I have: >>> >>> RedirectMatch 404 .*/\.svn(/|$) >> >> In SVN 1.7 clients, this will no longer be an issue since >> subdirectories in the working directory won't have the .svn files in >> them anymore. >> > > Not true. There will be one ".svn" directory in the root of the > working copy, as well as in any directory included through > svn:externals. > > Best regards, > Konstantin Kolinko
After all, you have to store the metadata *somewhere*.....