"svnadmin hotcopy" doesn't preserve file owners/permissions

[Marko Kaening <mk...@mch.osram.de>]

Hi,

I noticed that "svnadmin hotcopy" changes owner to root:root and also 
changes the file/folder permissions writable to owner only in the newly 
created hot-copied repository.

We have a special group accessing the repository. That's why we gave that 
group write permissions to the necessary files and folders and also 
changed the owner to the group. This way multiple users can access the 
repository via svn+ssh://.

Now there is the "problem" that the hotcopied repository is not ready to 
be used as a simple drop-in replacement for a wreck repository, because of 
its rights and owners settings.

Perhaps it would be worthwile to change the "svnadmin hotcopy" command in 
such a way that it preserves all the necessary info to be really usable, 
perhaps with an additional option like "--preserve-permission-and-owners".

Just a thought for the lazy,    ;)
Marko

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