RE: Restricting Check-Out Function

Nope. What you're asking for goes against Subversion's design paradigm
and/or philosophy.

 The server has no control over what the client asks for nor what the
client does with the data it receives. You would need to modify both
the client and the server to have some kind of authentication/validation
in order to ensure that only "authorized" clients are used. Or you
could require that people use custom checkout scripts, but you would
need to audit your people's computers to detect any other svn clients.

Obligatory question: why would you want/need to force people to
checkout entire branches?

From: Merten, Alexander (External)
[mailto:Alexander.Merten.External_at_eads.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:34 AM
To: 'users_at_subversion.tigris.org'
Subject: Restricting Check-Out Function

Dear all,

is it possible to restrict the checkout function of subversion, so that
only complete branches can be checked out? We want to forbid, that
people check-out single files or subfolders of a branch.

Is this something that can be done server-side or is that something that
can only be implemented by a client-side customization (e.g. by
customizing TortoiseSVN)?

Greetings,
Alexander Merten
Received on 2008-02-26 16:27:19 CET