Subversion related issues

Hello,

I posted a question on the community page (see link below) and markphip replied.
https://subversion.open.collab.net/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=3&dsMessageId=550254

The post is shown below

Issue 1

The access rule contain:
[aliases]
idan = ignace.danneels

[groups]
sol_dev = &bwal,&idan

the I would prevent that user to access a specific folder by putting
[CBD_Test_Environment:/]
&idan = rw

[CBD_Test_Environmen​t:/trunk/20_Software​/Sources/CBD]
&idan=

to prevent idan for accessing that subfolder

The main issue is that rules tend to change (software development is a living thing).
Currently we are using Tortoise client for subversion (I'm using subversion Edge version 4.0.1)

Assume the 2nd rule did not exist at first.
Then when idan checks out the repository, he obtains the subfolder on his workstation.

Now I implement the 2nd rule, because we notice that only a limited set of persons should have access to it, and idan is not one of them.

If I perform an update on the project (even with the changed rules), the CBD folder remains on the workstation.
If I delete the folder (locally), and perform an update, the subfolder is restored.

What I would like to obtain:
because the new rule indicates access to the subfolder is no longer granted, it should be removed locally.
Now I can only way I can obtain this by deleting the entire project/repository locally and checking out the repository again.

Issue 2

Use of wildcards:
I'm working in a group of software developers, in which one team should have access to a subfolder, while another part of the team should not.
I noticed that only rules with correct case sensitive names are accepted.
The issue here is that while developing software, we often create branches (for releases, for tests, ...), and the same rules should apply.
I just learned from the answer that SVN does not support wildcards

I tried to create a rule that would exclude the CBD folder from all branches/trunk/tags in the repository as follows:
[CBD_Test_Environment:/*/CBD]
&idan=

Because the CBD folder also contains xml files, which are useless for one specific group, I also wanted to change the rule as follows:
[CBD_Test_Environmen​t:/*/CBD/*.c]
&idan=rw
[CBD_Test_Environmen​t:/*/CBD/*.h]
&idan=rw

Hoping the * would mean any path in the repository.
Unfortunately, this does not appear to work.

Although the access rule appears to be accepted by subversion edge (there is no error when entering the rules above), I have found no documentation on the web indicating the use of wildcards in access rules.

As I'm a big fan of regular expressions, I also tested if the 2 latter rules could be merged into 1 as follows
[CBD_Test_Environmen​t:/*/CBD/*\.(c|h)]
&idan=rw

Also here the rule is accepted.

Issue 3

Assume the CBD folder has 20 subfolders and I would want idan to only have access to a limited set of these, how do I obtain this.
For now, all I could find out that's working is the following (I'm going to name subfolders: sub0 to subx; while assuming wildcards work.)
[CBD_Test_Environment:/*/CBD]
&idan = r
[CBD_Test_Environmen​t:/*/CBD/sub0]
&idan = r
[CBD_Test_Environmen​t:/*/CBD/sub1]
&idan =
[CBD_Test_Environmen​t:/*/CBD/sub2]
&idan =
and this for all subfolders.

What does not work (but would be nice)
[CBD_Test_Environment:/*/CBD]
&idan =
[CBD_Test_Environmen​t:/*/CBD/sub0]
&idan = r
Meaning CBD and all subitems are not accessible to idan, except the sub0 folder. The sandbox would (off course) have the CBD folder and only the sub0 subfolder

This does work if I do not use the wildcards but the fully extended name. But you can imagine if I have to do such a thing for each branch which is created, this creates a huge access rule file which is hard to maintain (as we create a new branch for each bug which is reported)

Can you confirm that the above mentioned issues are real issues?
If there are workarounds, can you give some advice.

As administrator for our subversion repositories, I like the central place for controlling the permissions, but the above items still make it a hard job.

Best regards,

Ing. Ignace Danneels
Controls Design Engineer
__________________________________________________________________________
TREMEC
TORQUE TRANSFER SOLUTIONS
Autobaan 20
B-8210 Loppem
Phone: +32 50 288063
Ignace.danneels_at_tremec.com
www.tremec.com<http://www.tremec.com/>

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