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Re: [Monotone-devel] Non-anonymous pulls
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Jack Lloyd |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Non-anonymous pulls |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:33:32 -0400 |
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:27:35PM +0200, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> >However, I assumed that 'mtn pull' should do the right thing for any
> >subsequent pull but it does not. It correctly remembers the branch
> >and pattern but it insists on doing anonymous pulls. Should these
> >secondary pulls also reuse the key used for the initial pull? Or is
> >this the intended behavior?
>
> AFAIK this is the indented behavior. Only 'mtn sync' and 'mtn push'
> search for a private key they can use - because none of the two would
> normally make sense. (Or is anybody seriously permitting anonymous write
> access?)
>
> For 'mtn pull', you have to explicitly pass a key, if you want to use one.
Wouldn't it make sense though for a pull to (if nothing else) retry
using available keys if anonymous access were refused? (Ie, why make
the user do it when Monotone can easily guess).
-Jack