On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 06:44, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:23 PM, David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if there is a (de-facto) standard way of "end-of-lifing"
>>> projects in an SVN repository, or any suggestions for this from other
>>> users on this list ...
>>>>
>>> I know I could just "svn rm" them, but some of the "project owners"
>>> feel a little bit uneasy about that.
>>
>> Do they know that doing a "svn rm" doesn't actually remove those
>> projects from the repository? All "svn rm" does is remove them from
>> the HEAD of the repository. They can still access all the history,
>> tags, branches and what not by simply using the -r <revision>
>> parameter when you do a Subversion command. And, they can find out the
>> revision by doing a "svn log".
>>
>> However, if that's to scary for them, create an "obsolete" folder and
>> move all the projects in there. Then, via pre-commit hook or
>> configuration, make all files and directories under "obsolete"
>> read-only:
>>
>> +--obsolete (Whole subtree is read only)
>> | |
>> | trunk
>> | branches
>> | tags
>> |
>> +--trunk (Still read/write)
>> +--branches (Still read/write)
>> +--tags (Still read/write)
>>
>> That'll get the files out of the main project tree, prevent further
>> changes in the code, yet still allow the developers to examine the
>> code and reminisce about the good ol' days when men were men and UUCP
>> was king.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions, all. I think I'm gonna go for David's
> suggestion here above. I.e. create a top-level "obsolete" directory
> with TTB inside, and "svn mv" the obsolete stuff in there.
>
> I'll take a look at making the obsolete directory "read-only" (or
> add-only, like for tags). Thanks to David, I have this great perl
> script lying around, which can be easily configured to enforce this
> from my pre-commit hook :-).
If you just need to set the whole directory read-only unilaterally,
you don't need a pre-commit hook; just use the built-in path-based
authorization.
Received on 2010-12-15 14:52:23 CET