Sounds great! Just recently I was talking to people who wrote their own web frontend wrapper to manage authz. I believe this new feature will make things easier for them since it allows them to skip the authz file deploy step.
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:41:11PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: > I've finished the work needed to implement in-repo-authz on the branch. > > I'd like to merge this code back to trunk. If there are no objections > I'll merge it into trunk next week. > > Please review my changes. You can view the overall set of changes > that would be merged with: > svn diff -x-p http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk@1423749 > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/in-repo-authz@1423749 > > The high level details of the changes and some performance testing of > the changes are on the wiki here: > http://wiki.apache.org/subversion/InRepoAuthz > > Perf testing has showing very little in the way of performance impact > of this feature. > > Details of the non-obvious changes are as follows: > svn_config_parse() added which allows parsing a configuration file > from a stream rather than a file. > Errors while parsing config files will now have the file and the line > the error occurs in separate errors since parsing the stream is now > abstracted from reading it in. > svn_path_is_repos_relative_url() and > svn_path_resolve_repos_relative_url() moved from private functions in > libsvn_client/cmdline.c to public functions. > svn_repos_authz_read2() added, which knows how to read authz files > from within the repo. > svnserve --config-file no longer caches the password and authz db > files specified in the config file passed to the option. They are > loaded on each connection, just like every other mode of operation for > svnserve. > mod_authz_svn has had the logging of svn_error_t structs generalized > and now logs the full chain.
