RE: Re: Strategies for projects/branches layout

"Jesse Erlbaum" <jesse@erlbaum.net> wrote on 07.11.2005 21:09:10:

> > The disadvantage is you can't enumerate all repositories on a server,
> > only directories within a repository. So that makes it a little more
> > awkward, but I think the benefits far outweigh.
>
>
> Problem with this is redundancy, particularly if I want to assert that
> all the "modules" in a repository are accessed by the same group of
> people. For example
>
> Repository: "CLIENT_A"
> Modules: "PROJ_1", "PROJ_2", "PROJ_3", "PROJ_4", "PROJ_5"
>
> This way I can set UNIX permission such that all users who work with
> Client A have access to all the projects.

Why use UNIX permissions? Apache SVN WebDAV module has built-in
authorization which supports groups, so you can control access to all your
respositories from one file. And in 1.3 svnserve is getting this too.

Cheers,

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