On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 06:47, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Andy Levy wrote on Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 06:26:47 -0400:
>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:04, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>> > Andy Levy wrote on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:56:14 -0400:
>> >> But our authz file is written as [Code:/path] and when committing, we
>> >> get 403 Forbidden errors because no rules match - the user is
>> >> committing to code and the rule checks for Code, case-sensitive.
>> >>
>> >> It's an easy enough fix on the client side, but it is an annoyance.
>> >
>> > I'm willing to accept that as a bug report, by the way. The
>> > before-the-colon section is defined as 'the basename of the repository
>> > directory', so it seems logical to me that it would be case-sensitive if
>> > the repository is on a case-insensitive filesystem (regardless of OS).
>>
>> I've read this a half-dozen times and I'm still missing something, I'm
>> just not understanding it.
>>
>
> Consider this setup:
>
> % svnadmin create /path/to/foo
> % svn mkdir -mm file:///path/to/foo/bar
> % svn mkdir -mm file:///path/to/foo/BAR
> % cat <<EOF > /path/to/authz-file
> [FOO:/bar]
> * = r
> root = rw
> EOF
> %
>
> On a case-sensitive filesystem, the [FOO:/bar] clause refers to
> a repository called 'FOO', which, in general, is not the same as 'foo'.
>
> On a case-insensitive filesystem, ./foo and ./FOO refer to the same
> object, therefore --- I argued --- it makes sense to respect both
> [foo:/bar] and [FOO:/bar] entries in the authz file when a request to
> a repository named *either* 'foo' or 'FOO' is seen.
>
> The paths within the repository (such as '/bar') are always case-sensitive.
>
> (Using terminology from trunk's svn_dirent_uri.h, in the authz file
> entry [FOO:/bar], 'FOO' is a dirent and 'bar' is an fspath.)
>
> Is that clearer?
Much clearer, thanks.
Do you want me to go ahead and write this up as a bug & submit to the
tracker? Or wait till I can test w/ svnserve and/or a newer SVN
release (I'm guessing the current release has the same affliction,
from your responses)?
Received on 2011-04-26 19:59:17 CEST