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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Thomas Harold <tg...@tgharold.com> on 2007/07/10 16:23:15 UTC

Re: svn:externals that allow developer and anon access?

noah wrote:
> I've been using svn:externals to incorporate one of my projects stored
> on another server into another project I'm working on.  I used an
> external with https so I could make commits to both repositories.
> 
> This is all well and dandy, but now I need to allow anonymous access
> to the whole project, but whenever anyone checks it out anonymously it
> asks for their credentials for the https repository, which they don't
> have.
> 
> Is there a way (without switching to svnserve) to have an alternate
> externals definition for anonymous access?

I'm wondering if cases like this will be fixed once svn:externals 
supports relative URLs?  Is this still planned for an upcoming SVN 
release (or was I dreaming)?

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Re: svn:externals that allow developer and anon access?

Posted by Karl Fogel <kf...@red-bean.com>.
Thomas Harold <tg...@tgharold.com> writes:
> noah wrote:
>> I've been using svn:externals to incorporate one of my projects stored
>> on another server into another project I'm working on.  I used an
>> external with https so I could make commits to both repositories.
>>
>> This is all well and dandy, but now I need to allow anonymous access
>> to the whole project, but whenever anyone checks it out anonymously it
>> asks for their credentials for the https repository, which they don't
>> have.
>>
>> Is there a way (without switching to svnserve) to have an alternate
>> externals definition for anonymous access?
>
> I'm wondering if cases like this will be fixed once svn:externals
> supports relative URLs?  Is this still planned for an upcoming SVN
> release (or was I dreaming)?

Planned, but no one (as far as I know, could be wrong...) actively
working on it right now.  Er, patches welcome! ;-)

-Karl

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