From: Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campanoli@...>
Date: 2009-05-21T04:47:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing SVN repository through Ruby

Did anyone ever get comfortable with any interface to Subversion from Ruby?  I'm 
seeing a lot of stuff lying around, and I wonder how good it is.  My interest 
has to do with secure authentication:

	When I pass an svn --username me --password mine cat http://h/repo/mfile

it of course ends up on the process list.  If I could use a ruby interface that
can allow me to run everything with individual authentication and keeps it all
off the process list and other public areas, I would be better off.  This is not
a real big deal otherwise, but if I can do it for auth, it would be worth 
migrating.

Brian Candler wrote:
> Juan Zanos wrote:
>> Invoking the command line is reasonable depending on how much
>> efficiency you need.
> 
> And as usual - benchmark before making any premature decisions about 
> performance.
> 
> svn itself is not fast, especially when accessing a remote repository, 
> so the overhead of invoking an external program is likely to be small in 
> the overall scheme of things.
> 
> That is, unless you're thinking of writing "svnhub" and having millions 
> of users checking into your repositories :-)
>