Cronjob Cvsup -> What?

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sun Jan 27 15:22:46 UTC 2013


On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Matthew Seaman wrote:

>  2) Choose a protocol for access the SVN servers.  Your choices in
>     order of preference are
>
>         svn://
>         https://
>         http://
>
>     Use svn:// for best performance.  If you're concerned about MITM
>     attacks injecting trojans into the FreeBSD sources, then use
>     https and be sure to verify the certificate hashes on first
>     connection.  Otherwise, if you're stuck behind a restrictive
>     firewall, use http://

HTTPS is preferred.  The SVN mirrors section of the Handbook will soon 
reflect that.

Performance should not be very different from svn://.


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