[scponly] Anyone ever look at the darcs-compat patch?

[Kaleb Pederson]

Hi Dan,

I finally had a chance to look at your darcs-compat patch.  I can't accept it 
because darcs provides a number of different ways that users can run 
programs.

For example:

`darcs put --help` lists off:

--posthook=COMMAND   specify command to run after this darcs command.

A more comprehensive list is:

--diff-command=COMMAND
--external-merge=COMMAND
--posthook=COMMAND
--sendmail-command=COMMAND

To further complicate matters you can specify the command to run in the 
configuration file.  For example:

_darcs/prefs/defaults:

apply posthook find . -user "$USER" -a ! -perm +g+w -exec chmod g+w '{}' ';'

Thus, even if we were able to process the command line arguments, there are 
other ways that the user would be able to execute commands.

Thank you for your efforts.

--Kaleb


On Thursday 21 June 2007, Kaleb Pederson wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> I'm working on a few bug fixes (one of which just went into CVS), and then
> I plan on looking at the new features, including this one.  I really
> haven't forgotten :).
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Kaleb
>
> On Thursday 21 June 2007, Dan Knapp wrote:
> > It's been a couple weeks now since people said they'd take a look at
> > my darcs-compat patch when they had the chance, and I haven't heard
> > back.  Has anybody done that yet?  I understand that you're
> > essentially volunteers (and thanks!), so there's no obligation, but I
> > just thought I'd send a note so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle.


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