How do I prevent users from deleting files from repository.

[Ed Mangual <my...@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I am new to svn and I am trying to figure out how to write a hook to prevent
users from deleting anything from my svn repostory. Today to my surprise I
found out you could delete an entire branch using the repo browser in the
tortoise svn client. I have been reading the svn book and searching google
for some answers on how to prevent this via a hook or any other method but
have not been able to find anything.

Your help would greatly be appreciated.

Ed

Re: How do I prevent users from deleting files from repository.

[Eric Hanchrow <of...@blarg.net>]

>>>>> "Me" == Eric Hanchrow <of...@blarg.net> writes:

    Me> 2) realize that if a user deletes something, it's gone forever

Gaah.  Of course I meant to say "it's NOT gone forever".

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Re: How do I prevent users from deleting files from repository.

[Eric Hanchrow <of...@blarg.net>]

>>>>> "Ed" == Ed Mangual <my...@gmail.com> writes:

    Ed> ... how to write a hook to prevent users from deleting
    Ed> anything from my svn repostory.  

Two things:

1) check out the "svnlook changed" command -- I'm 80% sure it'll tell
you if the pending commit contains deletions.  You can return a
failure code if that's the case.

2) realize that if a user deletes something, it's gone forever -- you
can just undo the deletion.  See
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.commonuses.html#svn.branchmerge.commonuses.undo

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Re: How do I prevent users from deleting files from repository.

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Jul 23, 2007, at 20:23, Ed Mangual wrote:

> I am new to svn and I am trying to figure out how to write a hook  
> to prevent users from deleting anything from my svn repostory.  
> Today to my surprise I found out you could delete an entire branch  
> using the repo browser in the tortoise svn client. I have been  
> reading the svn book and searching google for some answers on how  
> to prevent this via a hook or any other method but have not been  
> able to find anything.

You can prevent such things in the pre-commit hook. You may wish to  
use the svnperms.py script.

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