[Monotone-devel] Re: push without write access

[Bruce Stephens]

Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:44:53PM +0000, Bruce Stephens wrote:

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>> I think the idea is just for an alternative way of sending things.
>> I can see that being handy sometimes if you've only got read access
>> to a remote repository for some reason, and you've got some other
>> means of sending.
>
> yeah; and this is a really important use case.  it describes 90% of
> the people on this list, for instance, and every new developer
> you'll ever have...

Well, if I wanted to contribute something I could make my repository
accessible and tell people about it.  So at least some people could
set up a repository that could be read.  However, I agree that it
seems feasible, and would be useful.

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