[svnbook] r4118 committed - * en/book/ch06-server-configuration.xml...
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Revision: 4118
Author: cmpilato at gmail.com
Date: Fri Oct 21 10:48:48 2011
Log: * en/book/ch06-server-configuration.xml
Clarify that Subversion will honor access rules set on both file and
directory paths.
Patch by: Thorsten Schöning <tschoening at am-soft.de>
(Tweaked be me.)
http://code.google.com/p/svnbook/source/detail?r=4118
Modified:
/trunk/en/book/ch06-server-configuration.xml
=======================================
--- /trunk/en/book/ch06-server-configuration.xml Fri Oct 21 10:46:40 2011
+++ /trunk/en/book/ch06-server-configuration.xml Fri Oct 21 10:48:48 2011
@@ -3293,7 +3293,8 @@
One set of users may have permission to write to a certain
directory in the repository, but not others; another directory
might not even be readable by all but a few special
- people.</para>
+ people. As files are paths, too, it's even possible to restrict
+ access on a per file basis.</para>
<para>Both servers use a common file format to describe these
path-based access rules. In the case of Apache, one needs to
@@ -3673,6 +3674,19 @@
</programlisting>
</informalexample>
+ <para>All of the above examples use directories, because defining
+ access rules on them is the most common case. But is similarly
+ able to restrict access on file paths, too.
+ </para>
+
+ <informalexample>
+ <programlisting>
+[calendar:/projects/calendar/manager.ics]
+harry = rw
+sally = r
+</programlisting>
+ </informalexample>
+
<!-- ### FIXME: This is very Neon-specific. -->
<sidebar>
<title>Partial Readability and Checkouts</title>
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