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I'm teaching myself svn this month, in order to teach it to my Unix
students :-)

The error message went away when I disabled path-based access
control, but that seemed like a drastic solution.
So I checked the obvious things: had I given myself access to the
path in question (yes, I had). Just to make sure, I went through the
entire authz file looking for my username. In every single place
that it appeared, it was the first entry, and it had rw access.
(Which is also a drastic solution...) Even so, I kept getting this
error message when I checked out a project that I had just imported
five minutes earlier.

I did some Googling and found one counterintuitive answer: put anon-
access = none in svnserve.conf

This doesn't make any sense: if I'm not trying to log in anonymously,
why should anon-access matter to me? And why should DECREASING the
access available to anonymous users have the effect of INCREASING the
access I have? But it works: I put anon-access = none into the
svnserve.conf file, and now I can get at my own directories.

Is this a bug, or a really weird feature whose benefit I don't
understand?

Stephen Bloch
sbloch_at_adelphi.edu

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