On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Andy Levy <andy.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:36, Kriparam Faraday <kripa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> I am not sure if this feature is part of the current 1.6 release. We have >> created groups based on their work function(like developers, QA etc...). The >> developers get RW access to everything including the documentation folder >> and the source folder. The QA group gets RW in the documentation folder but >> gets only R access in the source code. This works fine, until someone >> decides to branch off or tag something from the trunk. I want to know if we >> can use some wildcards to give QA default access into all the documentation >> folders. for example: >> >> [<proj_name>:/branches/*/docs] >> @dev = rw >> @ qa = rw >> >> [<proj_name>:/branches/*/source] >> @dev = rw >> @ qa = r >> >> Will this work? or are there any other way to implement it? > > Authz does not support wildcards. If you need to restrict write access > via wildcards, svnperms.py can be installed as a pre-commit hook > script to provide more control over your access.
You may be interested to know that there is an open feature request about this in the issue tracker: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2662 - authz with wildcards Cheers, -- Johan