On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 12:33:46PM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Bruce Elrick <bruce.elrick@sylogist.com> writes:
> > Question from a lurker (who hasn't installed Subversion)
> > Given the above statement about authorization, can you use .htaccess files
> > checked into the repository to control access since .htaccess files can
> > contain directives?
>
> I don't *think* that works right now, but I know we've talked about
> it. (Greg Stein would have interesting stuff to say on this, but he's
> on vacation right now. You can probably expect some comments from him
> when he gets back in July. :-) ).
It won't work now, but in theory with appropriate additions, it
could work. We will only look for .htaccess in the filesystem not
in the URI space. There's all sorts of permission problems that
would have to be worked out in order to 'read' the .htaccess from
a virtual path. -- justin
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