Idea for a more sophisticated user rights management

Hello,

with apache and webdav a litte user management can be used. But the problem is that only
the main directories may be protected. If I have all projects below the branches directories
(eg /trunk/proj1 /trunk/proj2 /branches/version1/proj1) its not possible to set up
some user rights. So I can protect /trunk/proj1 but not /branches/ver20/proj1 automatically.

Is it possible to define user rights per directory and maybe files? Eg to use the (versioned) properties
  svn:user:jan
  svn:group:team1
  svn:rights:rwxr-xr-x
like in unix file system. The groups can be given in the user file (more than one group
per person should be allowed).

These properties are checked if the directory or file is accessed. So it is also possible
to create a branch from all projects (which is useful if they have dependencies) without
writing or reading rights for all of them.

Only question is if deletion or the renaming of a directory should be allowed if one of
contained files are not accessible, in my opinion it should.

In cvs this was possible, except for branching/tagging you need write access for all files.

best regards
jan

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Received on Mon Aug 30 13:32:51 2004