[Savannah-hackers] Re: Repository administration

[Mathieu Roy]

Ben Finney <address@hidden> said:

> On 31-Mar-2003, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Can you please tell me how I can achieve complete removal of
> > particular elements of a CVS repository on Savannah?
> 
> My immediate need would be met by having the 'toad' project on
> subversions.gnu.org reset to the default repository state for a new
> project.
> 
> Can this be achieved?
> 
> I'd love to be able to fix it myself, but it seems users don't have
> access to the filesystem of the CVS repository

No. 

Giving to every users a shell access require too much attention. It
means checking security very very regularly, it means adding quotas,
it means restricting cpu usage.

> , and CVS itself has no way to remove entries entirely from the
> repository.

Normally, you *shouldn't* have to remove entries completely. It's the
purpose of CVS, to keep tracks of every activities.

But if you really need it, tell us, and we will take care of it.



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Mathieu Roy
 
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