Re: authz via properties?

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Alexey Neyman <stilor_at_att.net> wrote:

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Did I only reply to you? Thanks for adding the list back.

> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 03:24:45 PM Mark Phippard wrote:
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> So your question is whether at a certain size does it slow down? I recall
> in the past it being said that it was stored in a hash so performance
> should not vary. But there has to be a parsing slow down and possible
> memory bloat. That said, I have heard of files in the hundred thousands
> for lines.
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> Yes, that was the question.
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> Note that you can also have files per repository.
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> We do not want to split the repository unless absolutely necessary, as
> that would break the atomicity of commits for features touching both
> restricted and unrestricted parts of the repository. Instead, I think, it
> would be very handy if the access rights were copied along with the
> file/directory on which they are specified.
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I was only pointing this out in case your existing rules were covering many
repositories. If that were true, you can now have one authz file per
repository rather than combining everything into a single file.

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/