Dear Experts,
I just wanted to simplify my original question:
Is there a way for a user with limited access to trunk (i.e., a user
who cannot read certain directories) to make a tag?
Thanks,
-Emin
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Emin.shopper Martinian.shopper
<emin.shopper_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Experts,
>
> I have the following problem with permissions and copy in svn:
>
> 1. User A has permissions to see /trunk except for /trunk/bar which is
> restricted.
> 2. User A tries to do something like "svn copy svn://server/repo/trunk
> svn://server/repo/branches/stuff", which fails with the message "svn:
> Access Denied".
> 3. User A does a local checkout of trunk (which excludes the
> /trunk/bar directory as desired)
> 4. User A does a local checkout of /branches which works fine.
> 5. User A does svn copy local-copy-of-trunk
> local-copy-of-branches/stuff which basically works but gives the
> message "svn: Directory '...' is missing"
>
> It seems like svn won't let user A do a remote copy of /trunk to
> /branches/stuff unless user A has permission to read ALL of trunk. Is
> this correct? If so, this is very troublesome because it prevents
> anyone without full access from making a copy or a tag of anything. Is
> there a work-around?
>
> Thanks,
> -Emin
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe_at_subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help_at_subversion.tigris.org
Received on 2008-06-24 23:46:46 CEST