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path-based authorization?

path-based authorization?

Posted Apr 3, 2010 17:08 UTC (Sat) by johill (subscriber, #25196)
In reply to: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap by lmb
Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

Because of course everything needs to be in a single repository.

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path-based authorization?

Posted Apr 3, 2010 18:21 UTC (Sat) by rillian (subscriber, #11344) [Link]

Subversion's lack of support for merging between separate repositories means it's much better to have everything in a single, organization-wide repository, even if that means you need things like path-based authentication to enforce project boundaries. And it's best to do this preemptively because there's no good way to import project history when you discover you need to merge differences later.

At least, that's been my experience. Subversion really does encourage centralization.

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