WC permissions

I've been following the recent discussions on the mailing lists (I believe dev also has been talking about this) about WC permissions problems. We've been having the same problems here where one person has checked out a WC, then someone else comes along and tries some SVN commands.

What happens is that WC becomes essentially unusable by either party until root can come along and fix the file ownerships. Without delving too deeply into the code, I have to ask if these problems are actually necessary.

Using strace and debugging the code, I've found that svn is trying to chmod files in the .svn directory to 0666 (or something similar). This chmod is attempted whether or not the file already had the proper permissions set.

What are the fundamental problems with allowing more than two people from working within the same WC, other than that svn is chmod'ing files that it might not need to, then failing with EPERM?

Thanks,

Scott

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Received on Tue Dec 9 20:16:32 2003