We had a need to lock the trunk to ensure no changes were made during a code freeze. In subversion, the “trunk” has no significance outside of industry accepted standards. As such, what follows will work on any directory.<\/p>\n
This is done with a pure ssh based subversion installation. All you must do is edit the authz file found under your repository_name\/conf directory on the server that hosts the subversion repository.<\/p>\n
Add the following line and it is immediately effective, i.e., no restarts of anything required.<\/p>\n
\r\n[\/trunk]\r\n* = r\r\n<\/pre>\nTo change it back to read write, simply make the permissions “rw”, as shown below:<\/p>\n
\r\n[\/trunk]\r\n* = rw\r\n<\/pre>\nOnce again, there are no restarts required to change it back and forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We had a need to lock the trunk to ensure no changes were made during a code freeze. In subversion, the “trunk” has no significance outside of industry accepted standards. As such, what follows will work on any directory. This…<\/p>\n