[REQUEST] bzr-webserve: ability to branch from webserve plugin's http server

[Michael Ellerman]

On 5/19/06, John Dong <jdong at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> It'd be really convenient and awesome if you can branch from a bzr
> webserve'd repository. I've ran into situations where a couple developers
> would interconnect with an ad-hoc wifi network and want to be able to
> pull/merge/branch from each other, but have no http server. This leaves the
> uncomfortable option of setting up temporary SSH accounts.
>
> With this ability, each developer can just run "bzr webserve", and other
> developers can directly branch from this server.
>

Not as sexy as 'bzr webserve' etc., but ...

source# cd path/to/branch
or
source# cd path/to/repo
source# python -c 'import SimpleHTTPServer; SimpleHTTPServer.test()'
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...
...
dest# bzr branch http://source:8000[/repobranch]

cheers