Hello! Can you delete directories in your subversion repository? Yes, really? You lucky bas....! Joke:)
Anyway, joke aside, the following is no laughing matter. It seems that upgrade from 1.6.17 to 1.7.1 exhibits some "undocumented features":) Apparently server version 1.7 parses permissions differently than 1.6, namely it does not allow me to delete directories I have write access to. This is my authz file: --------------------------------------------------------- [/project] user1 = r [/project/sys] user1 = rw --------------------------------------------------------- This seems to give user1 the read permissions to /project/* dir and rw permission for /project/sys, right? Let's see. As user1, I can do this: svn mkdir svn://server.org/project/sys/dir Then I can create /project/sys/dir/a file, and remove that file, commiting every step successfully to the repo. What I CAN NOT DO is remove (empty!) directory that I have just created: # svn rm svn://server.org/project/sys/dir svn: Access denied If I change authz file to only this (remove read-only permission to upper path): --------------------------------------------------------- [/project/sys] user1 = rw --------------------------------------------------------- then I can delete the directory I have created. To summarize: It seems that subversion parses and merges repository/path permissions correctly for following operations: checkout, commit-to-add-dir, commit-add-file, commit-to-delete-file. Operation commit-to-delete-dir does not seem to follow the same pattern. Has anybody experienced similar behaviour? Can someone confirm this bug? Or explain this feature? :) SVN version is 1.7.1 (both client and server) b.
