David F. Newman wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 09:53, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 08:18, David F. Newman wrote:
>>
>>> svn co http://svn/test/trunk
>>> A trunk/test.txt
>>> Checked out revision 5.
>>
>>> Is this a bug or a feature?
>>
>> That's a feature. Checkouts just 'skip over' unreadable subtrees. We
>> went through a lot of work to code that.
>>
>> If, at a future point, you suddenly gain the ability to read
>> /trunk/secret, then 'svn up' will make the directory appear in your
>> working copy.
>>
>
> Subversion must be using my cached credentials since this works:
>
> svn co http://svn/test/trunk/secret
> A secret/test.txt
> Checked out revision 5.
>
> So the question becomes, why does subversion skip over /trunk/secret
> when I issue:
>
> svn co http://svn/test/trunk
> A trunk/test.txt
> Checked out revision 5.
>
> I've even tried explicitly specifying the username
>
> svn --username dnewman co $T/trunk
> A trunk/test.txt
> Checked out revision 5.
Subversion servers 'pull' auth from their clients. The clients have no
opportunity to 'push' auth at the server.
Hence, because your root is anonymous-readable, no auth is pulled when
checking out from the root.
One possible (admittedly hackish) workaround would be to require
authentication, and publish the existence of a "user=guest/pass=guest"
account.
Max.
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Received on Thu Sep 16 19:56:53 2004