Hi! I learned that finer-as-per-repository-grained read access is rather "expensive" in terms of server load because rights have to be checked for each file updated. So it would be best that you have separate repositories for separate "read" user groups.
I have not heared about somebody who used separate HTTP servers for that, I doubt that it would help. Our setup is a combined redmine/svn server, where global read/write rights (per repo) are managed by redmine, and where necessary (in my area with about 50 projects this is exactly one project with a sort of paranoid leader) we use a precommit hook to restrict commit rights to individual subdirectories, which works quite well. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Dr. Hartmut Niemann Siemens AG MO MLT LM EN CCI 1
