Repository permissions explanation

[Rob Conaway]

Is there any doc with an explanation of the repository permission administration?  

Specifically,

1) What is mutable versus specified?  It looks like effective just reports the permissions.

2) How can I get rid of an existing permission?  DELETE THIS PERMISSION doesn't seem to work.

3) When I add permissions for a team/user to a repo, should that permission show up when I display the repo's permissions?

4) Is there any action other than SAVE that is needed to make permission changes effective?  Restarting the server seems to make some changes effective, but it's still unclear exactly what does what.

Thanks

Rob

[Rob Conaway]

Of course, as soon as I ask the question, my experiments start yielding sensible results.

It looks like a  lot of my confusion is because of the following: repo permissions can only be maintained by an owner of the repo.  If you are not the owner, it will appear to let you change the permissions, but actually fail silently.  Note that I was working as an admin, but that didn't solve the problem.  I had to be an actual owner of the repo.

I still don'[t understand the difference between "mutable" and "specified" on the permissions page.  Can someone clarify for me?

Rob

[James Moger]

That *is* confusing.  I had to lookup the code to remember.

Mutable are the permissions you can change through that control.

Specified includes mutable + owners.

Effective is specified + regex, admins, etc.

HTH,

-J

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