[PATCH] additional info on AFS-filesystems and Readonly FSFS repos.
Max Bowsher
maxb at ukf.net
Mon Sep 26 15:33:51 CDT 2005
Janne Johansson wrote:
> I haven't "tested" it, but the change seemed so simple I decided not
> to install everything required to build the svn book right now.
> This obviously is against the repo of the svnbook and not svn itself.
> No special attributes set on any words like <command> or <literal>.
>
> svn diff trunk/
> Index: trunk/src/en/book/ch05.xml
> ===================================================================
> --- trunk/src/en/book/ch05.xml (revision 1654)
> +++ trunk/src/en/book/ch05.xml (working copy)
> @@ -423,6 +423,15 @@
> the repository isn't affected at all. At worst, some
> transaction data is left behind.</para>
>
> + <para>If you are hosting your FSFS-based repository in AFS and
> + want to give out anonymous access to it, you need to allow
> + locking in the locks/ directory in addition to readonly rights.
> + The rest of the repository can have regurlar "rl" rights given to
> + system:anyuser, but the locks/ directory needs "rlk" in order to
> + make anonymous checkouts work. If you don't allow locking in the
> + locks/ directory, svn will refuse to check out from the
> repository.
> + </para>
> +
This will very probably no longer be true in 1.3.
The relevant change has not been committed yet, but I probably will in the
next few days.
Max.
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