I write a script getting sources from one repository, doing a build and other time consuming things and then committing the results into another repsitory.
The problem is: the detination side is "managed" which means that I must expect read only branches there. They use the path based authentication feature (see VisualSVNServer) without any communication. They want to close a branch for commits, that's enough communication. But in my case it would be very bad to start a process which runs for an hour or longer and then fails because it can't do the final commit. How can I detect if a path in the destination directory is read only without modifying it? My first guess was to use "svnmucc propdel" to delete a property which doesn't exist. This works great on a branch which is read only. But on the other side it creates always a revision on normal branches. That's not good. What can I do? T.M.
