How to seal/shutdown a subversion repository

Question

My project switched from svn to mercurial. I need to shut down/seal the svn repository so nobody commits to it mistakenly anymore. I do not want to shut down the svn server as there are still other projects using it.

My google-fu is failing me. How do I do this?

Don't be silly, there's a way to shut down the repository explicitly. — George Mauer, Mar 08 '13 at 23:44
You could also change the permissions on the directory where that repo is stored. — Kev, Mar 08 '13 at 23:46
See if this is relevant: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9228183/subversion-is-it-possible-to-disable-all-commits-and-make-the-repository-read — Radio-, Mar 08 '13 at 23:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 08 '13 at 23:49

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Add a pre commit hook in ./hooks/pre-commit (chmod +x of course)

#!/bin/sh
echo "Use the mercurial repository for new code please" 1>&2
exit 1;

answered Mar 08 '13 at 23:49

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Damn you beat me to it. sys.stderr.write ("Use the mercurial repository for new code please.\n") sys.exit(1) – Kev Mar 08 '13 at 23:50

How to seal/shutdown a subversion repository

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