As a person who has to manage design content, it is usually "after the
fact" that you find out a designer has deleted a file that you didn't
want deleted. Restricting user access is a must. The "svnperm.py" ( I
believe I got that right) is probably the way to go and that's next on
my list to explore.
Brent
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ulrich Eckhardt [mailto:eckhardt@satorlaser.com]
>>Sent: April 21, 2006 3:57 AM
>>To: users@subversion.tigris.org
>>Subject: Re: Restricting user level
>>
>>On Tuesday 18 April 2006 11:54, Ramaraj Subramanian wrote:
>>> I want to give access to all the developers to check out
>>and check in
>>> the files but they should be allowed to delete the files.
>> ^^^
>>I assume there's a "not" missing.
>>
>>> The problem with subversion is when a user is given write
>>access, the
>>> user has full rights to add folders, delete files and
>>folders etc. Can
>>> anyone help me to restrict the user to delete, create folders and
>>> files.
>>
>>Others already commented on how to technically solve this but
>>I personally wonder why. The point is that Subversion can
>>recover deleted files, in fact that's one of the things it
>>was designed to do. So if you want to allow people to create
>>folders and files, why not the opposite? This would make it
>>impossible for them to undo an accidentally committed file,
>>undo changes (i.e. reverse merging) or possibly even just
>>rename files.
>>
>>If you had restricted them from the beginning so that they
>>would only be allowed to edit existing files, that would have
>>been reasonable for people that you don't want to change the
>>overall design of things. However, even that would be a
>>severe restriction useful only to help people not to shoot
>>themselves in the feet but without training them on the use
>>of Subversion.
>>
>>Uli
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