On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 14:39, David Weintraub <qazw...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/11/25 Hoping White <baihaop...@gmail.com>: >> Hi all >> >> Is there any way to configure subversion to do per-directory access >> control via database not config file? I have googled a lot, and all >> found are telling how to configure apache login problem, not svn >> repository access control. >> > > The access control file is simply a text file. It should be fairly > simple to read from a database, and create the text file from the > database. In fact, most database programs have triggers that can > trigger a program to execute whenever a database change is detected. > > My experience has been that when the text file gets changed under > svnserve, the access is also changed without a restart of the > svnserve. This is a bit different from http/apache which requires a > restart of the httpd daemon.
We update our SVN authz & access files a few times a week and never have to restart Apache.
