Re: Installing an SVN repository -- permissions, and general tactics?

From: *** Davies (rasputnik_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/24/05

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    Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:25:18 +0000
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    On 23/11/05, Tom <tom@abwaerts.be> wrote:

    > About to set things up, and after reading the SVN book, I'm left with
    > some questions still. The book itself barely mentions permissions, and
    > when it does (at the end of chapter 6), it suggests I create a new group
    > (called "svn"), and add those users to it that will need to access the
    > repository. In this case, that'd be myself (I'd prefer using file:///
    > URLs) and www-data (since Debian provides libapache2-svn, it'd be a
    > shame not to make use of it). I'd also have to wrap the svn binary in a
    > script changing the umask to 002. For the same reason, I'd have to
    > modify apachectl.

    If you're using apache, then don't go for file:/// urls in your repo.
    Especially if there's any chance you're going to want to reach this remotely.

     Just access it via http(s) and have www-data own the repo. 

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