Re: [Trac] Support for Wildcards in SVN's authz file?

Thomas Fanning <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Feb 2026 09:08:57 -0600
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Is this something that is on the horizon?

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 9:31=E2=80=AFAM Jun Omae <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You're right. Trac currently doesn't support [:glob:/path/to/...]
> patterns in the svn authz file yet.
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 2:47=E2=80=AFAM thos <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Subversion 1.10 added support for wildcards in the authz file. (See
> https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.10.html#authzperf)
> >
> > For export control reasons, we need to control access to a subdirectory
> of our test cases. Of course they get copied around with branching and
> tagging, so wildcard support is a good solution to limit access via
> Subversion, but it doesn't seem to work with Trac.
> >
> > We are currently running Trac 1.4, but from what I see in the Trac
> source, it appears this is not currently supported in trunk, either. Is
> that true, or am I missing something?
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<div dir=3D"ltr">Is this something that is on the horizon?=C2=A0</div><br><=
div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"g=
mail_attr">On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 9:31=E2=80=AFAM Jun Omae &lt;<a href=3D"=
mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockq=
uote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-wi=
dth:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-=
left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
You&#39;re right. Trac currently doesn&#39;t support [:glob:/path/to/...]<b=
r>
patterns in the svn authz file yet.<br>
<br>
On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 2:47=E2=80=AFAM thos &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:thfannin=
[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Subversion 1.10 added support for wildcards in the authz file. (See <a=
 href=3D"https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.10.html#authzpe=
rf" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://subversion.apache.org/docs=
/release-notes/1.10.html#authzperf</a>)<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; For export control reasons, we need to control access to a subdirector=
y of our test cases. Of course they get copied around with branching and ta=
gging, so wildcard support is a good solution to limit access via Subversio=
n, but it doesn&#39;t seem to work with Trac.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; We are currently running Trac 1.4, but from what I see in the Trac sou=
rce, it appears this is not currently supported in trunk, either. Is that t=
rue, or am I missing something?<br>
&gt;<br>
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