[Ffmpeg-devel] CVS --> Subversion conversion, test repository

[Christian Iversen]

On Monday 29 May 2006 02:39, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:26:14PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:31:22PM +0200, Christian Iversen wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 23 May 2006 15:16, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:30:37PM +0200, Christian Iversen wrote:
> > > > > Also, the subversion extension to apache allows much more
> > > > > fine-grained control over user permissions. For instance, you could
> > > > > give a new developer write access only to /trunk/somelib for a
> > > > > while, before giving him rw on /trunk.
> > > >
> > > > You can do that with svnserve as well.
> > >
> > > Really? I'm confused then. This is from svnbook:
> > >
> > > "Notice that svnserve only understands ???blanket??? access control. A
> > > user either has universal read/write access, universal read access, or
> > > no access. There is no detailed control over access to specific paths
> > > within the repository. For many projects and sites, this level of
> > > access control is more than adequate. However, if you need
> > > per-directory access control, you'll need to use Apache instead of
> > > svnserve as your server process."
> >
> > svnserve allows this via pre-commit hooks.
>
> Or directly starting from version 1.3 onwards, the Subversion book does
> not appear to have been updated yet, though.

Ah, very interesting. As usual, don't trust the docs, trust the code :-)

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Regards,
Christian Iversen