Re: Possible svnsync data loss bug?

On Jun 26, 2012, at 12:43, Mark Phippard wrote:

> I cannot speak to all scenarios because I have not tested them. For
> example, if the svnsync user simply had no read access to anywhere in
> the repository it seems like it ought to error. But that scenario
> aside, the way that svnsync works is actually a huge feature. Imagine
> you have a remote team of contractors that you want to give a local
> replica of your repository. These contractors are not allowed access
> to parts of your repository. The contractors can use svnsync to crete
> a local replica using their credentials and their local repository
> will only contain the content they are allowed to access. The
> revisions that altered other paths will simply be empty commits.

What happens if a single commit touches both paths that are allowed and paths that are prohibit by a particular svnsync user? Will the entire commit be ignored or will the parts of it that are in the allowed paths be included and the rest removed?
Received on 2012-06-27 00:44:12 CEST