Yes YA (well reasoned?) feature request :)

(forward to dev if they want this :)

I just set up apache2-svn-dav based access control for a big project with a
bunch of repositories and many directories.

So I have a fresh perspective :)

I have a big repository with a lot of directories.
I want to give a contractor:

    - list access to "trunk/java"
        so they can get the list on eclipse "ImportProject" and click on them
    - defined "rw" or "r" access to a subset of "trunk/java/*"

I had to allow "@group = r" on "trunk/java" for the list access
I then had to *explicitly* state "@group =" for every directory which I did
not wish to give them any access, since the parent gives a default "r" to all
it's children.

I would like to set it up so the default on subdirectories is "no access"
so if someone adds a new one it doesn't default to readable until we set it
so. Yet, I want them to have list access on the parent (which currently
makes children default to readable) so they can click-navigate

Upon thinking about this it seems the best solution would be to add "x" to the
directory permissions and specifying "x" without "r" or "w", disallows read
and write but allows the operations needed for a directory "listing" of
it's children. So full access would be "rwx". for compatibility "r" or "w"
would imply "x" by default.

Peter K.

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