Comment 7 for bug 750501

On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 20:37 +0000, Ted wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 19:04 +0000, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > Can you explain a bit how you would use this repository under SVN? The
> > server gives a 403 error, there's not really a good way to work around
> > that.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jelmer
>
> I get a 403 error at the root of the repo: /repos/hayden. Notice from
> the command line that I'm trying to check
> out /repos/hayden/ekiden-svn/trunk. I do have permissions to that
> directory, and can log into the web server and click around and view
> files in that directory. I just don't have permissions to the root
> folder of the repo (and adding permissions to the root folder of the
> repo fixes this issue).
>
> In SVN, I can successfully check out just the repository I want, even
> though I don't have read permissions to the root directory.
>
> This is similar to the bug I linked to in the original report -- it
> seems to be the same behavior. That bug is marked as fixed, and I'm
> using the version that it's marked as fixed in, so I'm not sure what's
> going on.
Ah, ok.

The other bug (I don't have the bug # here) is fixed as much as is
possible; you do have to set some extra options to prevent bzr-svn from
accessing the repository root that should be documented there.

Cheers,

Jelmer