Re: CVS access control

[Tobias Brox]

[Matthew Versluys - Tue at 10:45:53PM -0700]
> A typical file could look like this:
> READ ^Readable
> WRITE ^Writable
> READ ^Read/Access/But/Not/Below/Here$
> WRITE ^Write/Access/But/Not/Below/Here$

I'd say you should expand the syntax a bit:

READ ^public
WRITE ^development
DENY READ ^public/except/for/this/file$

When you're at it, you should also allow for different ruling on different
branches, not only directories.

I've been into the need for having write-permission (and it's a nice idea in
general) only to the a particular "sandbox" branch of a project.

That would be a nice feature in CVS, also because it _can't_ be supported
only on the basis of file permissions.