How to freeze entire SVN repository to make it read-only

Question

Can't find an answer to my exact question. We migrated to a different source control system and want to keep a read-only snapshot of the entire repository. No one should be able to commit any changes anywhere. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Just update your authz file to

# give everyone read-only access to the entire repository
[reponame:/]
* = r

Answer 2

This solution works only for svnserve, but not for apache-powered subversion servers.

Answer 3

You can create a hook to do this:

repository/hooks/pre-commit

#!/bin/sh
echo "No more commit here - this is an archive branch"
exit 1