Subversion: Write protection for tagged directories

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Subversion: Write protection for tagged directories

Hi,

i am using subversion as RCS. Always when a new version of my project is finised i create a tag of it (copy of the trunk). Does anybody know how i can protect this tagged directory from being accidentally modified?

At the moment as a workaround i lock all files. But this sill means that the user with the lock can edit the files.

Is there any better solution?

+4 A:

You can use a pre-commit hook to prevent users from writing to a tags directory after it has been created.

See this related SO question for examples:
SVN pre-commit hook for avoiding changes to tags subdirectories

Tim Henigan 2010-05-21 12:48:56

Pre-commit hooks are scripts that can do more complex things, like only allow changes in the tags directories by certain users.

dj_segfault 2010-05-21 12:52:25

If a pre-commit hook is the official way i will set the SVN attribute "svn:needs-lock" on all files instead.

Alexander 2010-05-21 13:02:33

Don't do setting the property on all files...this is against the idea of SVN. The answer given about path-based-authorization is the correct way.

khmarbaise 2010-05-21 13:19:33

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You can give read only permission on the tag directories using path-pased authorization.

Davide Gualano 2010-05-21 13:18:02

The problem with this solution is that you can't create new `tags`. If certain users are granted write permission, there is always a chance of mistakenly modifying files within a tag.

Tim Henigan 2010-05-21 13:44:03

You can set in read only the tags after creating them, leaving the usual /tags subdirectory writeable: es: /myproject/tags is writeable, while /myproject/tags/my-first-tag is set to readonly after the tag creation.

Davide Gualano 2010-05-21 14:26:24

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