Re: [TSVN] Revision graph and authentication problems

Mitch Arends wrote:
> We are running into the following problem. In the environment that we
> work in we restrict access of developers to only certain folders. So in
> our case our folder structure may look like this:
>
> <REPOSITORY_ROOT>
> <SUB_FOLDER1>
> <SUB_SUB_FOLDER1>
> <SUB_SUB_FOLDER2>
> <SUB_FOLDER2>
> ETC...
>
> One of the developers is currently having problems getting the Revision
> Graph to come up - he is getting an authentication error when trying to
> bring up the graph. Currently this developer only has access to
> <SUB_FOLDER1>. The error being reported by TortoiseSVN is that he
> doesn't have access to <REPOSITORY_ROOT>. The error is as follows:
>
> PROPFIND request failed on '<REPOSITORY_ROOT>'
> PROPFIND of '<REPOSITORY_ROOT>': authorization failed (<SERVER_NAME>)

That's expected. TSVN needs to fetch the log from the repository root to
get all the information needed to draw the revision graph. So as long as
a user doesn't have the rights to do that, it will fail.

I suggest giving all users read access to the repository root and then
deny them the rights for subfolders which they shouldn't see.

Stefan

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