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Re: Subversion Blues - please help

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:00:33 -0400

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Stefan Sperling wrote on Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 17:55:37 +0200:
>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:08:53AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> > On 9/28/2010 9:49 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>> > >On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 04:42:50PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> > >>Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 23:05:20 -0400:
>> > >>>dump is very useful for using a new format, or optimizing the relevant
>> > >>>database. It doesn't bring along your config tools. In fact, I'd love
>> > >>>to see the "svnadmin hotcopy" factored, first to transfer the
>> > >>>database, and separately to transfer configurations.
>> > >>
>> > >>i.e., to copy the hooks/ and conf/ directories too?  Sounds like
>> > >>a reasonable feature request...
>> > >>
>> > >>Feel free to file an issue, or send a patch, etc.
>> > >
>> > >Such an issue already exists:
>> > >http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3299
>> >
>> > It would be nice if svnsync tracked and transported them as well,
>> > but kept them in a renamed location so they would not be used unless
>> > you wanted to activate the copy as a replacement for the (probably
>> > now defunct) original.
>>
>> Feel free to file an issue, or send a patch, etc. :)
>>
>> In any case, neither issue is trivial to solve. They need some design.
>
> Also: Authz.  Just because I have read access to a repos, doesn't mean
> I should be able to read its hooks and config.
>
> (particularly if that config just contains people's passwords, eg
> svnserve.conf)

Especially "password" files, or user access lists.

Personally, I use RCS for the config files and hook scripts inside an
SVN repository. That way, an 'svnadmin hotcopy' gets those.
Received on 2010-09-29 03:01:12 CEST

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