[Monotone-devel] unchecked pull [Was: monotone questions on stackoverflow.com]

[Lapo Luchini]

Richard Levitte wrote:
> For now, I know that some have suggested that admins could make a copy
> of the database available for download...  from a security point of
> view (since security is a major point in monotone), that's entirely
> equivalent to a pull that's not checked at all!

Yes, that's the line of thought that brought me there too.

Mainly, probably, while I was explaining some people the reason
"mtn pull" is so different from "$anyVCS pull" is that it's not a
"download" command, is mainly a "check every single bit of it while,
almost by chance, fetching it from remote", which is quite a bit of a
different thing. =)

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