Re: Making file immutable in working copy

There are a whole slew of pre-commit hooks that can do just this. In
fact, this is probably the most popular request for a hook.

The most common one is written in Python, and there's an older Perl
version that isn't quite as flexible as the Python version, but will
do exactly what you want.

Both hooks will allow you to lock a specific file, specific directory,
or specify a group of files via a regular expression. You can specify
that no one can touch a file/directory or that only certain people
can.

That way, you can have two people work on one project, but not allow
other people in your group to touch a project, or you can freeze a
project, so people can check it out, but not modify it.

Take a look at <http://subversion.tigris.org/tools_contrib.html#hook_scripts>

The two you're looking at are:

commit-access-control.pl (and commit-access-control.cfg.examples)
enforcer (and enforcer.conf) -- this is in Python

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David Weintraub
qazwart_at_gmail.com
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Lasse Kliemann
<lasse-subversion-users-2004_at_plastictree.net> wrote:
> How do I make a versioned file in a working copy immutable, i.e.,
> prevent it from being changed (especially from being deleted) by
> subsequent 'svn up' operations?
>
> Removing the write permissions in the file system is not
> sufficient. One could use 'chattr +i ...', but that involves
> superuser privileges (or special capability settings). There must
> be a simpler way.
>
> Rationale: I know that one can always get an old version of the
> file from the repository. However, I am concerned with the case
> when the server holding the repository is compromised. Yes, then
> I play in a backup. However, my users want to be as independent
> as possible from any centralized solution; they want to rely on
> certain files never changing in their working copies, at least
> not without their explicit consent.
>
>
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