On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com> wrote:
>
>> >>Also part of the reason to split up the repos is to make access
>> >>control easier, and it looks bad if Alice (who should have access to
>> >>project 1 but not project 2) can see Bob's old commit metadata to
>> >>project 2, even if she can't see the commit bodies after the split.
>> >
>> > How does this work now in the combined repository?
>>
>> Right now, they don't have it with the combined repo. Anyone in the svn group
>> can read everything. (This is one of the reasons they want to break up the
>> single repo into per-project repos.)
>
> You should knock the reason off the list. You can set up path based authorization fairly easily. (especially compared to braking it up into multiple repos.)
>
Unless you already have a central authentication source you'll have a
certain tradeoff in complexity between maintaining password control
for multiple repos vs. path-based control in a single one and if there
are external references where different groups use each others'
libraries it can be a little messy either way.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
Received on 2013-09-10 23:45:03 CEST