Re: access rights to branches

[Laird Nelson]

"Derek R. Price" wrote:
> 
> Laird Nelson wrote:
> 
> > That said, if you know that your user will never try to force a commit
> > using the -r switch (don't know how you'd know this, but most users
> > don't use this flag), then you can write a commitinfo script that will
> > check the old revision number and reject access based on it, making the
> > assumption that the new revision number will be the old one with the
> > rightmost number incremented by one.  You could also check the tag.
> 
> This isn't strictly true.  The first commit of a file to a branch could go
> from 1.X to 1.X.Y.1.

Quite right, and, I might add, there's no workaround.  :-(

Cheers,
Laird

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