> -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d...@daniel.shahaf.name] > Sent: 26 April 2011 11:48 > To: Andy Levy > Cc: Bob Archer; Michael Hüttermann; users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: repo on Windows -- why not? > > Andy Levy wrote on Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 06:26:47 -0400: > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:04, Daniel Shahaf > <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > > > Andy Levy wrote on Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:56:14 -0400: > > >> But our authz file is written as [Code:/path] and when > > >> committing, we get 403 Forbidden errors because no rules > > >> match - the user is committing to code and the rule > > >> checks for Code, case-sensitive. > > >> > > >> It's an easy enough fix on the client side, but it is an > > >> annoyance. > > > > > > I'm willing to accept that as a bug report, by the way. The > > > before-the-colon section is defined as 'the basename of > > > the repository directory', so it seems logical to me that > > > it would be case-sensitive if the repository is on a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think the confusion might be because this should have been "case-Insensitive"?
~ mark c > > > case-insensitive filesystem > > > (regardless of OS). > > > > I've read this a half-dozen times and I'm still missing > something, I'm > > just not understanding it. > > > > Consider this setup: > > % svnadmin create /path/to/foo > % svn mkdir -mm file:///path/to/foo/bar > % svn mkdir -mm file:///path/to/foo/BAR > % cat <<EOF > /path/to/authz-file > [FOO:/bar] > * = r > root = rw > EOF > % > > On a case-sensitive filesystem, the [FOO:/bar] clause refers to > a repository called 'FOO', which, in general, is not the same > as 'foo'. > > On a case-insensitive filesystem, ./foo and ./FOO refer to the same > object, therefore --- I argued --- it makes sense to respect both > [foo:/bar] and [FOO:/bar] entries in the authz file when a request to > a repository named *either* 'foo' or 'FOO' is seen. > > The paths within the repository (such as '/bar') are always > case-sensitive. > > (Using terminology from trunk's svn_dirent_uri.h, in the authz file > entry [FOO:/bar], 'FOO' is a dirent and 'bar' is an fspath.) > > Is that clearer? > > > I'd be hesitant to submit as a proper bug report as we're running > > 1.5.x in production and I haven't tested with a current release. I > > won't be able to put any time into testing against 1.6x. > for another 3 > > weeks due to a project. Unless my previous email is documentation > > enough to go on. > > > > > Is it httpd-specific, or does it also happen with svnserve? > > > > We've never run svnserve, so I couldn't say. > > Okay, thanks. >
