On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 8:10 AM Daniel Sahlberg <daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Den mån 16 dec. 2024 kl 12:47 skrev Richard Tresidder > <rtres...@electromag.com.au>: >> >> Hi >> I'm wondering if there has been any discussion about adding the ability >> to allow traversal of a single tree path. >> Currently one has to provide read access to to each level of the tree and >> prune off every other directory in the path. >> I'd like to give a user access to root/path1/path11/path111/* >> But I don't want them to have any access to or visibility of other >> directories / files along the way. >> eg root/path1/path2 would not be visible or accessible. >> >> Probably needs another access type? 'x' to allow traversal to a deeper >> level, but hide everything else? >> >> The prune method is not reliable as new folders may be added, sometimes >> theres a lot of folders etc there are files in the folders along the desired >> path. >> >> Cheers >> Richard Tresidder >> > > Hi, > > That is a very useful feature, unfortunately I'm not sure if there is anyone > with enough time to implement it. A patch would be highly welcome. > > I know this exact functionality exists in at least one of the commercial > servers, see the support page for VisualSVN Server [1]. >
At first I thought this had been implemented a long time ago, but then remembered it was a feature we (CollabNet) added in our authz module. I seem to recall we proposed it on dev@ list and may have even sent a patch but not sure. One thing I remember is that implementing this feature does leak the existence of the nodes you are not allowed to see in the WC metadata because an entry is added in the WC that indicates the item exists but you do not have access to it. That may have been why it was decided not to include this in SVN. Mark
