Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ongoing Comparison Between Version Control Systems

[Robert Anderson]

On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 11:10, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Robert Anderson wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 09:32, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > Fixed.
> > >
> > > > - how about for arch's repository permissions - "access permissions on
> > > >   an arch repository are global, but arch makes it easy to mirror
> > > >   projects in different locations - so it is possible to emulate
> > > >   access to a subset of the project list pretty easily"
> > > >
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if I get you here. What I want is that different parts of the
> > > same repository will have different permissions. So, for example, if I
> > > have an API and several GUI Clients that use it, the maintainer of one of
> > > the GUI clients will only have write access to that client directory,
> > > while not able to write to the core API. Can it be emulated in Arch?
> >
> > Yes.
> 
> Can you elaborate a bit? Can it be done using WebDAV? Or using FTP
> meta-permissions? How?

By using vanilla unix permissions, and arranging your "repository"
appropriately.

Bob