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From: Steven Michalske <smichalske@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4 v2] Implement a basic remote helper for svn in C.
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:45:46 -0700
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On Jul 2, 2012, at 4:07 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

> [...]
>> diff: Use fifo instead of pipe: Retrieve the name of the pipe from env and open it
>> for svndump.
> 
> I'd prefer to avoid this if possible, since it means having to decide
> where the pipe goes on the filesystem.  Can you summarize the
> discussion in the commit message so future readers understand why
> we're doing it?

Crazy thought here but would a socket not be a bad choice here?

Imagine being able to ssh tunnel into the SVN server and run the helper with filesystem access to the SVN repo.

Akin to the pushy project use case.
http://packages.python.org/pushy/

SSH into the machine, copy the required components to the machine, and use the RPC.
Nothing needed but SSH and python.  In this case SSH, SVN, and the helper would be needed.

This also would work just fine with the local host too.

Steve

Note: Resent, Sorry it was signed, and rejected before.