Re: Could svn_backend check permissions?

> The rule I'm suggesting is: if you are relying on group write access to
> open the DB files themselves, your umask must not contain the 020 or 040
> bits. I didn't say anything about the owner of the directory.
>
> Certainly, it's possible to contrive a case where I violate this rule
> and things continue to work; it just requires that nobody else tries to
> use the repository but me, ever again. But there's no conceivable
> reason why I'd want to set up a repository that way.

For you, perhaps, but others may want to. The rule I suggested,
maintaining permission compatibility with previous log files, excludes
no case that works in subversion now.

Cheers.

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Received on Sat Sep 6 20:35:38 2003