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Re: [LUG] real life use of SVN

 

Quoting "Benjamin M. A'Lee" <bma-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 04:55:47PM +0000, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
>> I don't check out direct to the root because I don't want people to
>> have even the slightest chance of viewing the .svn directory even if
>> my .htaccess does protect against it...
>
> Out of interest, why is this a concern?

I'm paranoid... :oP

There is a chance that within the .svn directory there could be files  
that contain stored passwords etc for your SVN sessions.  That's not a  
risk I'm prepared to take!

M.
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