May I go ahead and raise the feature request in Jira now?
I believe the approved process was discuss on mail-list, then raise in Jira.
- Paul
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 5:40 AM, Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Hammant wrote:> It will help the owners of subversion repos
> preventing files from being> overwritten that they do not want to be
> overwritten. [...]
> >
> > It will help subversion end-users not upset the owners of repositories
> > by changing files (and committing them back) that there are not
> supposed to.
>
> I kind of like your suggestion in general terms -- because a polite
> system ought to inform the user what they can and cannot do, before they
> waste time trying it -- but I don't understand your reply here.
>
> In your original message you wrote "mod_authz_svn adjudicates". These
> authz rules are strict: a user cannot override them from their side.
>
> > Secondarily, I would expect Subversion's client to gain a new option:
> >
> > --make-workingcopy-resources-readonly-if-applicable
>
> The "svn:needs-lock" property for "advisory locking" causes the
> Subversion client to make files read-only in the WC when the user
> doesn't have the corresponding lock. See
> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.locking.html>. A
> user can override ("break") this kind of lock if they want to.
>
> That mechanism is usually used for files for which the user, or *some*
> users, have write access. I suppose files which are authz-read-only for
> the current user, could also be marked read-only in the WC regardless of
> whether they have svn:needs-lock. That sounds reasonable to me so far.
>
> > Sure, it's only read-only bit and can be flipped by anyone who can
> > launch WindowsExplorer and pop a properties tab for the file, etc.
> > That's worth mentioning because the time honored provision of corporate
> > files over a network share comes with an ability to lock the read-only
> > bit for files. That said the end user could copy those files to their C:
> > drive.
>
> That's all fine -- users can and should do whatever they want or need to
> with their local files.
>
> - Julian
>
>
Received on 2017-07-25 16:31:44 CEST