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Re: Concurrent access via file and dav

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:40:51 +0200

Stefan Sperling wrote on Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 13:35:11 +0100:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:37:27AM +0100, Hendrik Fuß wrote:
> > Am 22.12.2011 um 11:24 schrieb vishwajeet singh:
> >
> > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Hendrik <hendrik.fuss_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > is it safe to access a repository via local file:// protocol on a
> > > server that also runs apache2 and mod_dav_svn? I'd like to create tags
> > > locally on the server to avoid some authentication headaches.
> > >
> > > If you are not doing any write operations that should be just fine.
> >
> > Good. Trouble is, I want to do write operations, e.g. svn copy. Is it safe to do that with subversion?
>
> If you use the same user credentials as httpd you can safely commit
> via file://. But if you commit as a different user you might cause
> permission problems for httpd for new files created in the repository.

(and those permission problems can be avoid when umasks, etc are set
properly)
Received on 2011-12-22 13:41:38 CET

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