I've been doing a lot of work with Subversion lately, both in my day job, and in some open source projects I work with (specifically Blastwave.org). Subversion is great in a lot of respects -- I especially like that it is able to utilize all of the excellent authentication, authorization, and other features of Apache 2.2. One thing I am unhappy about, however, is the static authz file which mod_authz_svn uses to limit read/write access to the database. Why a flat file? Why, oh why?
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