Comment 2 for bug 126976

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote : Re: [Bug 126976] Re: Automatic discovery of new branches

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 13:03 +0000, David Allouche wrote:
> To clarify, I think Jelmer would like the ability to register a Branch
> Collection (tentative name).

> The use case is: automatically register all the branches I push to this
> public location.
Yep, exactly - a changing branch collection. It would have to track
changes in the branch collection once first registered.

> Open issues:
> * Should the listing be recursive? At first, I'd say no: only register direct children of the collection URL.
Agreed. Recursively could be more easily prone to DoS attacks and I
think there's no real use case for more than one level of branches
anyway.

Cheers,

Jelmer