On May 4, 2010, at 8:39 , Karl Fogel wrote:
> Mark Slade <markandrewslade_at_gmail.com> writes:
>> Per your Issue Tracker Guidelines, I am seeking somebody who agrees
>> that this is a bug before I submit it.
>>
>> Overview: For files, 'svn mv' does not properly inherit ACL
>> permissions from the parent directory.
>>
>> Steps to reproduce (from a subversion working directory):
>> 1. setfacl -d -m user:$USER:r-x .
>> 2. touch foobar
>> 3. svn add foobar
>> 4. svn commit -m 'test' foobar
>> 5. svn mv foobar barfoo
>> 6. getfacl barfoo
>>
>> If you check the ACL for barfoo after steps 2, 3, and 4, you will see
>> that it has properly inherited the user:jdoe:r-x permission. After
>> step 5, you will see that barfoo has not. You can circumvent this
>> behavior by using "mv" instead of "svn mv" in step 5. In this case,
>> you need to "svn delete foobar" and "svn add barfoo" before you can
>> commit the move.
>>
>> Details:
>> CentOS release 5.4 (Final), svn 1.4.2 (from yum)
>>
>> I'm not sure what else is relevant, so fire away if you have questions.
>
> So just to clarify:
>
> The expectation is *not* that Subversion would version these ACLS, but
> rather that, on the client side, an 'svn mv foo bar' would preserve
> foo's ACLS so that bar has the same ACLs (locally).
>
> IOW, you would not expect that when the 'svn mv' is committed and
> someone *else* checks out a working copy with the new bar in it, that
> bar to have the ACLs, right?
>
> (Btw, I think it's better to just use "foo" and "bar" -- it's a bit hard
> to keep track of "foobar" vs "barfoo", mentally :-) .)
>
> Stephen Butler, I saw your later followup, but were you clear on how
> limited Mark's proposal actually is?
>
> -Karl
Ooops, I see I misunderstood the proposal. Thanks, Karl.
So, Mark, go ahead and open the issue. It'd be nice to reproduce it
using the latest Subversion release (1.6.11).
Cheers,
Steve
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Received on 2010-05-04 09:46:48 CEST