Re: Why the options "Allow ambiguous URLs" and "Allow ambiguous UUIDs" are enabled by default?

tisdag 13 juli 2021 kl. 07:17:33 UTC+2 skrev Stefan:

> On Monday, June 7, 2021 at 8:50:02 PM UTC+2 Pavel Lyalyakin wrote:
>
>>
>> Do I understand correctly that these options are enabled by default in 
>> all TortoiseSVN versions? Is there a rationale for enabling these options 
>> by default?
>>
>>
> yes, these options are enabled by default. That's because this is the safe 
> option. When this option is disabled but the user connects to wrongly 
> configured/set-up repos then there will be crashes and completely wrong 
> logs being shown.
> So the user can disable these options to get a little more performance, 
> but then the user is responsible to make sure that uuids and urls are not 
> ambiguous, or life with the consequences...
>
> If it were the other way around, users would get crashes/wrong logs and 
> not know why, so they either would just think that TSVN is unstable/crap or 
> complain here about "the bug".
>
> Stefan
>

I believe the wording is a bit counter intuitive because it implies, at 
least to me, that it is by default ("leave it") unchecked.

I would propose a rewording like this:

[[[
Index: doc/source/en/TortoiseSVN/tsvn_dug/dug_settings_logcache.xml
===================================================================
--- doc/source/en/TortoiseSVN/tsvn_dug/dug_settings_logcache.xml        
(revision 29091)
+++ doc/source/en/TortoiseSVN/tsvn_dug/dug_settings_logcache.xml        
(working copy)
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
             the same URL for all repositories. Older versions of
             <literal>svnbridge</literal> would do this. If you need to
             access such repositories you will have to check this option.
-            If you don't, leave it unchecked to improve performance.
+            If you don't, uncheck it to improve performance.
           </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
             reasons this is a bad idea - a UUID should be
             <emphasis>unique</emphasis>. However, the log cache will
             still work in this situation if you check this box.
-            If you don't need it, leave it unchecked to improve 
performance.
+            If you don't need it, uncheck it to improve performance.
           </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
]]]

Kind regards,
Daniel Sahlberg

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