Re: Could svn check permissions?

At 8:29 PM -0400 9/6/03, John Peacock wrote:
>Jack Repenning wrote:
>>If that includes "--user," then the user stuff need no longer be
>>_remembered._
>
>Like this?
>
>$ ./svnadmin create --help
>create: usage: svnadmin create REPOS_PATH
>
>Create a new, empty repository at REPOS_PATH.
>
>Valid options:
> --on-disk-template arg : specify template for the on disk structure
> --in-repos-template arg : specify template for the repository structure
> --bdb-txn-nosync : disable fsync at transaction commit [Berkeley DB]
> --config-dir arg : read user configuration files from directory ARG
> --user-id arg : create repository for exclusive access
>by user ARG
> --group-id arg : create repository for shared access by group ARG

Yeah, something like that ;-)

Now that I see it, I'm seized by the concern that we use "--username"
(in other places) to mean something different than this ("log in as
username before doing things"). This use of "user" seems like it
might be confusing. Even if the explanation makes it clear, the
parameter name itself ought to be clear. Oh, and the help isn't
entirely correct: --user-id might be used in a shared case as well.
How about

   --owner arg : create repository owned and usable by user ARG
   --group arg : create repository owned and usable by group ARG

-- 
-==-
Jack Repenning
CollabNet, Inc.
8000 Marina Boulevard, Suite 600
Brisbane, California 94005
o: 650.228.2562
c: 408.835-8090
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org