[Ffmpeg-devel] CVS --> Subversion conversion, test repository

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:26:14PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:31:22PM +0200, Christian Iversen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 May 2006 15:16, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:30:37PM +0200, Christian Iversen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Also, the subversion extension to apache allows much more fine-grained
> > > > control over user permissions. For instance, you could give a new
> > > > developer write access only to /trunk/somelib for a while, before giving
> > > > him rw on /trunk.
> > >
> > > You can do that with svnserve as well.
> > 
> > Really? I'm confused then. This is from svnbook:
> > 
> > "Notice that svnserve only understands ???blanket??? access control. A user either 
> > has universal read/write access, universal read access, or no access. There 
> > is no detailed control over access to specific paths within the repository. 
> > For many projects and sites, this level of access control is more than 
> > adequate. However, if you need per-directory access control, you'll need to 
> > use Apache instead of svnserve as your server process."
> 
> svnserve allows this via pre-commit hooks.

Or directly starting from version 1.3 onwards, the Subversion book does
not appear to have been updated yet, though.

Diego