On Jul 19, 2011, at 06:23, david myers wrote: > Also the file is stored on disk somehow, so I thought I may be able to > directly manipulate the access permissions on a directory / file, I just > wanted to know if this would work or not. From what I read I understood that > this was the case, if however SVN silently 'ignores' these types of > permission that is fair enough, I guess the process runs as a super user, > which would make sense (most server processes seem to want to have full power > over their own process, which seems reasonable).
That's not possible because a Subversion repository is a database; there is not a one-to-one mapping between a file or directory in a repository and a file or directory on your server's hard disk.
