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Re: CVS/SVN comparison

From: John Szakmeister <john_at_szakmeister.net>
Date: 2004-10-22 19:41:43 CEST

David F. Newman wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 06:10, pushok wrote:
>
>> With your approach there NO difference between TAG and BRANCH. All
>>that is the COPY. One copy, called TAG we _promise_ do not change. And
>>that's why it is a TAG. But nothing can prevent me from modifying this
>>COPY. So, some "bad" developer CAN change the TAG.
>
>
> One can force a read-only policy on tags by making the /tags directory
> read-only to everyone except the release coordinator using
> mod_authz_svn. Then a bad developer can't change tags.

This can also be forced by using a pre-commit hook script. I made one
that allows you to create a tag, but you can't commit any changes under it.

-John

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