[PD-dev] Protecting Pd-MAIN [was: Re: [PD] Problem in os x 10.5.1?]

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Wed Feb 13 17:53:01 CET 2008


On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

>> What's the SVN equivalent of the CVSROOT directory?
> there is no CVSROOT equivalent in subversion.

Ok, I thought that there could be either a hidden folder or some metadata 
that does not count as part of the repository itself, but is still under 
the repository of SVN... but anyway.

> subversion itself does no nothing about authentication and 
> authorisation: this is left for a frontend. the usual frontend (the one 
> sourceforge is using) is via http/webdav; an ACL needs to made available 
> to the frontend; for apache, this is usually done via a special file on 
> the filesystem (which is read by the apache-server); more info under 
> [1]. sourceforge would need to provide a means to write this special 
> file; in my privat svn-setups, i haven't found a way to split this 
> configuration into a per-repository file (instead of per-webserver) - 
> but that might be just my personal failure; this might be the reason why 
> sourceforge does not provide any means of ACLs for svn (yet).

Is SVN ACL on SF's TODO list? if it is not, could we make a request to 
have this feature?

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