Re: Working Copy on Network / Usage of multiple users

Karl Heinz Marbaise wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 16:03:55 +0100:
> Network: working-copy-1
> User 1 accesses working-copy-1 and changes some files and will checkin
> those changes.
>
> User 2 accesses working-copy-1 and changes some files and will checkin
> those changes.
> etc.
>
> My knowledge is that if those accesses to the above working copy can be
> handled strictly sequential it might work but i'm not 100% sure..(may be
> someone can give more detailed informations)..
>

You'll need to think about permissions: when wc.db is rewritten, or
a new .svn/pristine/ file created, would user2 have permissions to
replace or unlink it (respectively)?

Authz would be a concern too, if the two users' read accesses differ.
(the code should DTRT --- it's no different than the server revoking
some read access in a one-user scenario)

> Can someone give more detailed information if the above assumption is
> right or wrong ? I assume it's right...

Have you considered other solutions? For example, the ASF CMS maintains
one working copy per project, and uses zfs copy-on-write clones to fork
off a per-user working copy for each user (even concurrent users) who
works on that working copy.

https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/cms/webgui/lib/ASF/CMS.pm
Received on 2012-12-27 20:00:52 CET