Re: [Zope-Checkins] Re: SVN: Zope/trunk/ - Applied patch for
Tres Seaver <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.zope.coders |
|---|---|
| Organization | Zope Corporation |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martijn Faassen wrote: | Tim Peters wrote: | [snip] | |> 2. If, perhaps in frustration due to noticing that #1 had no |> effect, they cd to the root of the working copy of an external, and |> svn commit from there, the changes *will* commit, and will actually |> change what's checked in on the external's release tag. Everyone |> else will "see" the changes then, but the external's release tag |> will no longer contain what was actually released. |> |> If so, "checking in from a wrong project" plain sucks, externals or |> not. If it were possible to mark externals as "read only", that could |> help. Ditto if it were possible to mark a stitched-in copy as |> read-only. Don't know whether either is possible. | | It's possible to mark them read only, sort of. In fact you have to, to | make read-only Zope checkouts work. It's just a matter of using the | read-only (for svn.zope.org at least) svn URL instead of svn+ssh in the | externals definition. | | It'd be nicer if svn had some way to *really* say read-only, but this | does work in practice. :) The SVN refuse to recognize the lack of "read-only copies" as a defect, but there is a workaround, which is to add rules preventing checkins to portions of the tree: ~ http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch06s04.html#svn-ch-6-sect-4.4.2 We could adopt such rules for the 'tags' section of the repository (perhaps granting "fixup" rights to a restricted set of user IDs). One would then be able to define the 'svn:external' property pointing to the "read-only" tag with reasonable safety. Tres. - -- =============================================================== Tres Seaver [email protected] Zope Corporation "Zope Dealers" http://www.zope.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCQDOCGqWXf00rNCgRAigWAKCc5p0U6OobHFOzzByeFIPg/3PUbQCcDQqa 7qoY6X9egNexeMGHGG/Zfrw= =4TCY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----