Re: Backing out changes: the prefered method?

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:39:04PM -0800, Sean Russell wrote:
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> On Wednesday 30 January 2002 15:22, Philip Martin wrote:
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> > realise this function needs to be available. The logical place to put
> > it is in svnadmin, which already contains the setlog command. Then the
> > destructive behaviour is limited to those that have direct access to
> > the repository database.
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> ... in which case, they can muck about with the database via the BDB tools
> and do whatever they want anyway, right? I agree.
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Perhaps history-changing should be restricted to svnadmin until we have
permissions and/or ACLs.

Those would give an administrator the ability to grant particular users
(or none at all) access to history-changing functionality without granting
them complete svnadmin access.

--ben

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