What we did at UBZ

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:38, Robert Collins wrote:
>> On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 12:03 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> > > Except filenames starting with a dot are typically hidden by apache,
>> > > and that is really hard to turn off. (I still haven't figured out how
>> > > to show the .bzr directories).
>> >
>> > Is that really a show-stopper? On my server they're hidden, but still
>> > browsable as long as you know they're there. I don't see why that's
>> > really a problem?
>>
>> 'as long as you know they are there'. Thats the key - much of bzr works
>> right now without you *needing to know*. That makes it very
>> discoverable, and very easy to use. I'd hate to compromise that
>> unnecessarily.
>
>Except that .bzr isn't discoverable via http? So perhaps it should be called 
>+bzr ?

I specifically don't have Options Indexes in my http bzr branches, but they
still work if you point bzr at them; nothing in the branch is
'discoverable', so the name of '.bzr' is irrelevant as long as the tool
knows what it's looking for.

I'd be upset if .bzr changed to +bzr to work around the fact that http
doesn't do directory listings.  (Unless I'm mistaken and these new archive
branches don't bear any impact on what I currently understand to be a
branch.)