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Re: CVS/SVN comparison

From: Guido Anzuoni <guido.anzuoni_at_kyneste.com>
Date: 2004-10-25 09:17:06 CEST

See interleaved comments.

Guido.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Palmer [mailto:scott.palmer@2connected.org]
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 9:16 PM
> To: David F. Newman
> Cc: SVN Users
> Subject: Re: CVS/SVN comparison
>
>
>
> On Oct 22, 2004, at 2:26 PM, David F. Newman wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 13:37, Scott Palmer wrote:
> >>
> >> I was under the impression that using svn: the only security was
> >> read-only vs. read-write for the whole repository, and
> that you could
> >> not apply different security based on the path. So with svn: the
> >> 'tags' folder can't be made read-only independently of the
> trunk and
> >> other 'copies'.
> >>
> >> From the Subversion book:
> >> "Notice that svnserve only understands âEURoeblanketâEUR
> access control.
> >> A
> >> user either has universal read/write access, universal
> read access,
> >> or
> >> no access."
> >
> > The key word here is "svnserve". There are other repository access
> > methods.
> >
> >> So I think my claim still stands.
> >>
> >
> > If you continue reading into the next section you will see that you
> > have
> > fine grained access control when utilizing an Apache web server for
> > repository access. The apache server provides the user
> authentication
> > while the subversion module mod_authz_svn provides the
> access control
> > on
> > a per directory basis.
> >
>
> Um, that's *MY* point. :)
> Subversion doesn't do immutable copies. Apache can be configured to
> work around this issue. I simply think that *Subversion* should
> support immutable copies as I think it would satisfy many people that
> are looking for a kind of tag that Subversion currently
> doesn't have.

Well, try to see from another point of view. About everything is immutable in
Subversion (you can modify commit message with admin tools).
A copy is immutable if you see it as the transaction that **created** the copy.

> If this was a feature of Subversion and not a hack that can be done
> with Apache it *would* work with all repository access methods. I
> think it should work the same with all repository access methods.

I agree, it would be great if mod_authz_svn could be shared among different access
methods (together with some extensions on available actions, i.e. read/write is not
sufficient, and path specification, i.e. wildcard are appreciated).

>
> Scott
>
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