[cvsnt] Letting some users only see versions older than date X ?

Koen no at ssppaamm.com
Tue Jan 25 15:17:47 GMT 2005


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Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

>> If you create a "PUBLIC" branch from HEAD (where you have the open
>> code), then set permissions on trunk and branch such that the
>> anonymous users are only able to check out the branch whereas your
>> developers can check out everything then it might work.
>
> Another option might be to create a repository for public use, and
> whenever you consider the code stable, you transfer whatever is in
> your private repository to the public repository. This can be done
> pretty much automatically by a script.
>
> Alternatively, you can probably create a commitinfo script that does
> this double commit on every commit, if complete up-to-date-ness is
> desired for the public code.
>
> In any case, there will be some work that has to be done even if you
> use only one repository and a PUBLIC branch. In this case you need to
> merge or copy the changes to the branch. I think this is not less
> work than working with different repositories, and the configuration
> is more flexible with different repositories.

Thanks for the ideas!
I'll need to check out what might be suitable here...
Koen





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