There’s been a lot of ambient (and not so ambient) noise in the geeky corners where I often linger about Git. There seems to be some sort of mass exodus underway as folks indicate that they have, or are planning to, move away from Subversion for their source control needs and I have to admit that I’m feeling a little ignorant.
This problem occurs as an effect of apache beeing run as root. Though commands are still issued by the apache 'http' user, the home directory are for some reason still '/root'. Read the rest of this entry »
Both Apache and svnserve are capable of granting (or denying) permissions to users. Typically this is done over the entire repository: a user can read the repository (or not), and she can write to the repository (or not). It’s also possible, however, to define finer-grained access rules. One set of users may have permission to write to a certain directory in the repository, but not others; another directory might not even be readable by all but a few special people.