RE: Something like svn:executable for the read-only bit?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Branko Čibej [mailto:brane_at_wandisco.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 16 July 2015 10:53 AM
> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Something like svn:executable for the read-only bit?
>
> On 16.07.2015 02:41, Evan Driscoll wrote:
> > We have some generated files that, for logistical reasons, are way
> > easier to just check into the respository alongside the
> source than to
> > build on-demand. (They're small text files, not some big binary or
> > something like that.)
> >
> > Is there a way to instruct Subversion to remove write access when
> > checking them out?
> >
> > Obviously the user could just chmod them to add it back,
> but the point
> > is just to avoid someone unintentionally modifying the
> generated file
> > instead of the source, not to keep people from being jerks. :-)
>
> Setting the svn:needs-lock property will make files in the
> working copy read-only.

Hi Evan,

You can even do this automatically from the client settings or the server (from 1.5). If you look at the SVN book (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/) under Chapter 3: Advanced Topics -> Properties -> Automatic Property Setting, it talks about MIME types. It says that SVN will automatically set the svn:executable property on newly added or imported files whose execute bit is enabled. By enabling auto-props and including a MIME type statement similar to the following in your config file, you can automatically set the read-only properties:

In our Windows world, we use a registry tool to set it on the client. Here are the relevant bits of our .reg file:

...
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tigris.org\Subversion\Config\miscellany]
"enable-auto-props"="yes"
...
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tigris.org\Subversion\Config\auto-props]
...
"*.exe"="svn:needs-lock"
...

Obviously, this would need to be updated for your Unix system, but that's what we're doing here. The SVN book should give you good guidance there.

Regards,

Geoff

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