In authz files, [/] is often mentioned as a cross-cutting repo root that has permissions for users and groups.
There's no other references to a path in square brackets with a trailing slash. At least, not in http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html. That was context, and here's the question or perhaps bug report... So, administrators of Svn installs should *not* create paths in authz files with *trailing slashes* - like [/foo/] - right? I say that because my attempts to do so yields plenty of unexplainable 403 responses in ordinary clients like web browsers. Making me think it's a bug. Or there could be a dev-team view that this is a documentation improvement issue at this point. Specifically some advice like "Paths that are directories don't have trailing slashes in square brackets other than [/] for the root" added to the above page. One more thing - Mike Pilato's http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/authz_and_anon_ article on CollabNet's blog ... would be great if it were slurped into the SvnBook somehow. Anyone from Collabnet care to weigh in? - Paul
