Are you aware of the svnauthz-validate utility? (Try 'make svnauthz-validate' in a Subversion source tree)
Daniel creo Haslinger wrote on Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 01:49:21 +0100: > Hey there, > > I'm here to ask you if this the following is intended behaviour > and - if it really IS - if one should consider to think over it > again. I'm not sure if this should go to dev@, but I decided to > start at users@ first ;-) > > We're serving a medium sized Subversion userbase ( ~ 400 users ), > repositories are of course maintained by the users themselves and > of course they are managing access permissions on their own. > > Every now and then it happens that a user renders a repository > unusable by doing misconfiguration on their .control as e.g.: > > > [repo-x:/project-y] > johndoe = rw > janedoe = rw > r = * > > > Of course the last line is incorrect since it should have been > * = r instead of r = *. > > From our point of view, subversion should of course send a warning > to the logs that this line is erronous - and it actually does that, > but as soon as it trips over this line it discards the whole > .control and ignores it. > > There are often over 20 to 50 users on a repo that are relying > on the SVN and just by this simple mistake the whole repo goes down. > > It it _really_ necessary to discard a whole repo config instead of > discarding the corrupt line? > > > > Thanks for any hint or advice, > > > creo
