limit read-access in bzr

[Ben Finney]

Louis <louis.inbox at gmail.com> writes:

> For example, I have a few subdirectories in the repository that I
> want to limit read-access (not just commit-access) to some
> developers. The developers still have read & commit access to all
> other directories.

Bazaar implements no access restrictions. That's a feature: it's left
entirely to the transport and storage mechanisms to implement.

> The other option is to split the repository into multple
> repositories, but that becomes a management nightmare, and you lose
> the ability to 'snapshot' the entire source tree easily.

This is what ConfigManager <URL:http://bazaar-vcs.org/ConfigManager>
is intended for. It "provides the Bazaar with the ability to build a
tree out of one or more branches", according to its description.

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Ben Finney