Restricted access by branch

[Jason House <jh...@mitre.org>]

Is it possible to have multiple "branches" with shared history, but to 
restrict certain users from access to particular branches?  Any guidance 
on how I could do this would be greatly appreciated.


For a little bit of background:
One branch in our repository is a joint development/integration with 
software from another organization; we can't share their code with 
others.  I'd like to give other users access to other branches (or 
possibly just the release branch).


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Re: Restricted access by branch

[Ximon Eighteen <xi...@int.greenpeace.org>]

Jason House wrote:
> Is it possible to have multiple "branches" with shared history, but to 
> restrict certain users from access to particular branches?  Any guidance 
> on how I could do this would be greatly appreciated.

Since branches are (if you follow the suggested structure) just 
directories inside your repository you can use (if using mod_authz_svn, 
or the upcoming (I think) support in svnserve for similar permission 
controls) the mod_authz_svn access control file with something like:

[repos:/branches/branchname]
sally = r
* =

Or whatever permission model you want.

Restricting access via other tools that talk to your repository (such as 
ViewCVS) depends on how the tool works. If it talks to the repository as 
any client would then its access can be controlled. If however like 
ViewCVS it talks locally directly to the repository I think you need 
support in ViewCVS. I have hacked (badly) my copy of ViewCVS borrowing a 
little code from the Trac project and some of my own in combination with 
an Apache configuration that uses mod_authz_svn to apply basic auth to 
my ViewCVS URLs too (extra code for the query.py part of ViewCVS was 
required, this obviously cannot use URL based protection).

Ximon


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