New to bzr : two of my SVN usecases

[Lionel Dricot]

Hello,

I'm fairly new to Bzr and fairly enthousiast about it. All seems great so
far. Nevertheless, there are two usecases I have with SVN that I want to
reproduce with Bzr. So far, I didn't find how to do it (I must admit that
it's a lot of new concepts at once so forgive me if my questions are dumb
and point me to the correct documentation).

1) First use case : the LDAP centralized server.

I want to have a centralized Bzr server for my "trunk". But it has some
limitation : I want the access to be provided over http/https by Apache
(like I'm doing with SVN currently). Also, the authentification is done by
an LDAP server. But I still want to have per-user authorization (I'm
currently doing it in a dav_svn.authz file). How can I reproduce this
usecase ? I want to stress that in some of my project, confidentiality is
really important so I must be able to be sure that read access is only
available for a few allowed users. Also, if permissions are handled by dav,
what about local users on the same filesystem ?

Bonus point : if a user make its own branch. I understand that it can push
it to the trunk if I give him the authorization. But how can I say : "It's a
good branch, let's host it on the server alongside with the trunk" ?


2) Second use case : the multiple directories /etc repository.

Currently, I put some parts of my /etc/ directory in a svn repository called
"configuration". But I don't want to put all /etc/. So, I created the
"configuration" repository and I import in it all the folder I want to save.
It means that each important folder is only a partial checkout of the
repository. It's great because it allows me to put any folder in this
repository, even if they are not in "/etc" and it also means that /etc is
not at all in svn.

How could I do something like that in bzr ? Am I allowed to branch only a
subtree and to push to it ?


Thanks a lot for your answers,

Lionel
(currently spreading bzr love at work )
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