GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support

Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by colonelpopcorn on Friday January 20, 2023 @03:49PM (#34459731)

source.php.old.ReallyOld.bak.thistimeitsold.old

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by IgorPartola on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:39PM (#34460331)

Exactly. When it is a small change, just comment it out. But when it’s a large change, create a .old.backup.2013-12-07.dontdelete.

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by m4tthumphrey on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:50PM (#34460455)

source.php_newnewnew

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by rezonant on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:14PM (#34460810)

I wonder how much PHP source code is publically reachable out on the Internet because people would do this without realizing that modphp wouldn't treat it like a PHP file anymore, so an HTTP request to it would cause it to dump the file's source code.

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by mattl on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:05PM (#34463054)

index.php~ for anyone using Emacs

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by snickerbockers on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:46PM (#34461172)

i'm still angry at mozilla and google for deprecating that, being able to set up a simple anonymous FTP server and send normies a link to it that they can open in their browsers was really convenient. Now if I want to use FTP i have to explain to them that they have to copy it into the windows file explorer or download filezilla.

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by Aachen on Friday January 20, 2023 @06:33PM (#34461690)

I didn't even use it all that often but, yes, I also feel like this was useful to have. Every now and again I come across an ftp site that I now have to copy into a dedicated program instead.

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by haileys on Friday January 20, 2023 @06:58PM (#34462015)

Why not an HTTP server with a directory index?

FTP is a pretty clunky protocol: it's round-trip heavy, not friendly to NAT on the client-side when you don't use PASV, not friendly to firewalls on the server-side when you do. I'm not sure what benefits there are to it these days.

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by doublepg23 on Friday January 20, 2023 @07:43PM (#34462447)

Yeah a simple `python3 -m http.server` works pretty well.

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by champtar on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:33AM (#34464880)

Python http.server doesn't handle concurrent requests, so it works pretty well until it doesn't. Example don't use it to serve an ISO to iLO/iDRAC, boot will fail.

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by saagarjha on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:45AM (#34464926)

I believe this was updated in a recent version of Python to use threads.

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by spydum on Friday January 20, 2023 @08:55PM (#34462969)

Ftp is dead, just enterprise and mid level companies won't let go. It boggles the mind why it has persisted so long.

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by eppp on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:43PM (#34463311)

There is tons of old crappy software that cannot understand anything else, so it persists. Like fax machines.

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by Geezus-42 on Friday January 20, 2023 @10:06PM (#34463460)

Though I typically use rsync these days, FTP can be useful for copying files to and from a Linux server when the client is a Windows machine.

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by Kim_Bruning on Friday January 20, 2023 @10:25PM (#34463554)

Recent windows versions natively support ssh, scp, sftp on the command line.

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by LilBytes on Friday January 20, 2023 @11:19PM (#34463846)

The types of companies that use Windows will atypically take a long time to get on a modern version for their stack. Desktop fleet withstanding.

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by sitkack on Friday January 20, 2023 @10:07PM (#34463465)

But how can we pop a box without have wuftpd installed?

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by password4321 on Friday January 20, 2023 @09:29PM (#34463216)

https://github.com/sigoden/dufs

A file server that supports static serving, uploading

MIT/Apache-2 in Rust

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by tannhaeuser on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:40AM (#34464675)

Not just FTP is being deprecated, but WebDAV (DeltaV) is deeply based on Apache's mod_dav_svn subversion integration as well. WebDAV maps over regular HTTP GET/POST routes to provide quite sophisticated versioning of web resources at the same endpoint using just additional HTTP verbs (though also is/was often routed at URLs with a special prefix).

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Re:GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support by mickael-kerjean on Saturday January 21, 2023 @08:28AM (#34466282)

I made one of these online tool from which you can create deep links to an FTP server like this: https://demo.filestash.app/login?type=ftp&hostname=ftp.gnu.o...

It works not only with ftp but sftp, s3, webdav and pretty much any other storage backend you can think of.

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