How to smartly limit source code access for team members?

Question

Previously I've worked alone... Now I may have many collaborators. But I don't want to give full access to the source code (which is controlled now with SVN). Moving to Git or Mercurial is actually not a big deal. But what is the best way and with the least headaches to control security? Where you don't need to enter a command prompt and execute code to change some permissions to limit access to team members every second? Is there a Web control for this?

Answer 1

If you are using a mod_dav setup for SVN with Apache, you can use Path-Based Authorization to limit which directories different people have access to according to predefined group permissions.

There is an extensive tutorial here: Path-Based Authorization in SVN