We had it as a windows share but have just moved to a linux server.
We have always used a central working repo on the dev server, changing this
could be quite a cultural shock for some of the developers here.
Why the big issue with TSVN and Samba?
Can I get around this by having just one useraccount on my samba share?
On 1/11/08, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Lübbe Onken | RA Consulting wrote:
> > Forwarding to dev, since this message was posted to the wrong list
> >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* Rachel Graves [mailto:packetgirl_at_gmail.com]
> > *Sent:* Friday, January 11, 2008 2:34 PM
> > *To:* issues_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> > *Subject:* TSVN and Samba
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I have a samba share setup on a debian linux box, this has been
> > setup to create all files as 0777 file permissions to allow group
> usage.
> >
> > TSVN seem's to ignore this and updatte .svn metadata's permissions
> > as it likes, for example:
> >
> > -rwxrwxrwx 1 36 2007-10-02 12:36 dir-prop-base
> > -r-xr--r-- 1 1012 2008-01-09 11:00 entries
> > -rwxrwxrwx 1 2 2007-09-07 14:44 format
> > -rwxrw-rw- 1 0 2008-01-10 15:33 lock
> > drwxrwxrwx 2 4096 2008-01-08 11:53 prop-base
> > drwxrwxrwx 2 4096 2008-01-08 11:53 props
> > drwxrwxrwx 2 4096 2008-01-08 11:53 text-base
> > drwxrwxrwx 5 4096 2008-01-09 11:02 tmp
> >
> > This frequently gives us access denied and permission errors.
> >
> > Is these something I can do about this?
>
> The only real solution: don't share working copies. They're called
> working copies for a reason!
> You have the repository where everyone has access to, *that's* the one
> thing that's shared. Working copies must not be shared.
>
> Or you could try a plain Windows share, not SAMBA - unfortunately, SAMBA
> always causes problems with permissions, after all, it runs on Linux and
> the Linux and Windows permissions are *not* the same.
>
> Stefan
>
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Received on 2008-01-11 16:18:47 CET