Re: Readonly externals

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On 2/19/07, Nick Vaughan <n.vaughan@codestuff.net> wrote:
>
>> What I'd like to do is to ensure that SharedLib, when its
>> checkedout/updated through the svn:externals is marked as readonly. This
>> serves as a reminder to me if I go to edit the project in my TheProduct
>> solution that it should really be modified in the Common solution where
>> I will ensure that it is fully tested, documented, etc, etc.
>
> Couldn't this be solved with fine-grained authorization? In other
> words, checkout TheProduct as a particular user, but then make sure
> that same user has no write permission to the sharedlibs location?

The question is not on the server but on the local machine - that is, having
the local files being read-only because it is from a read-only external.

Thus, this is a client-only type of feature.

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