Re: [boost] [sandbox] SVN externals, and large subdirs.

From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-25 11:33:35

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:22:32AM -0500, Rene Rivera wrote:
> troy d. straszheim wrote:
> > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:39:33AM -0500, Rene Rivera wrote:
> >> Yes, that's the structure for the sandbox 
> >> <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostSandbox>.
> >>
> > 
> > Whoops.  Sorry about mussin' the dirs.  Apologies for not having seen
> > that page before.
> 
> Learn and live... for all of us :-)
> 
> > a https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/projects/a/trunk
> > b https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/projects/b/trunk
> > c https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/projects/c/trunk
> > d https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/projects/d/tags/stable-release
> 
> But those types of externals are exactly what are causing problems. They 
> don't work for anonymous access. And since SVN doesn't handle 
> relative/partial URLs they can't be fixed so that they work for both dev 
> and anonymous users.
> 

It looks like something along the lines of svn:internals is in the
works for subversion 1.5:  

  http://www.svnforum.org/2017/viewtopic.php?=&p=6560
  http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1336

meanwhile the solution is to put anonymous and developers everybody on
the same "side" (scheme) of the server.  Either:

  create a read-only anonymous account on the https side

or,

  dump https and put the devs read-write accounts on the http side

both of these things are straightforward to do.  

-t