Any way to protect " tags" in bazaar?

On 12 January 2012 09:50, Vijaya Kumar
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> New question #184462 on Bazaar:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/184462
>
> Hi,
>
> How to protect release tags in bazaar  , i.e user should not able to delete the tags, only admin should do that ?

If the user can write to the repository, they can change any tags.
The simplest thing is probably just to tell your users: "don't change
release tags after they're made."

You could have a separate repository, writable only by release
managers, that contains the definitive tags.

You could do a patch to bzr that runs a hook before tag changes are
attempted, and then use that to enforce a policy about who can change
them. We can help you add the hook if you want to try this.

--
Martin

Hi Martin,

This hook method sounds good, could you please guide me to write a hook for this.

Thanks & Regards,
Vijay

could you help us in setting up hooks for protecting tag deletion.

You would probably want to add the hook in bzrlib/tag.py in the bzr source code, and tests to see that those hooks actually get run in bzrlib/tests/test_tag.py. There are several good examples of hooks in bzrlib/branch.py.

Could you please more specific..
1. copy the script tag.py from ../bzrlib/tag.py to source code repository ?

Repository contains, .bzr/branch
                                        .bzr/branch-lock
                                        .bzr/repository
Where to copy that script and how to test it?

Do I need to modify that tag.py to protect tag deletion?

On 01/18/2012 03:20 AM, Vijaya Kumar wrote:
> Question #184462 on Bazaar changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/184462
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> Vijaya Kumar is still having a problem:
> Could you please more specific..
> 1. copy the script tag.py from ../bzrlib/tag.py to source code repository ?
>
> Repository contains, .bzr/branch
> .bzr/branch-lock
> .bzr/repository
> Where to copy that script and how to test it?
>
> Do I need to modify that tag.py to protect tag deletion?
No, there's no need need to copy anything.

You will need to edit the bzrlib/tag.py file from the bzr source
distribution to add support for hooks (it doesn't exist yet). This will
involve python programming.

Cheers,

Jelmer