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

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 10:31 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 22 May 2006, John Dong <jdong at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Wow! Wonderful, exactly the kind of feature I was looking for.
> > 
> > The only bug I've been able to find is that it doesn't properly handle:
> > 
> > (1) Repository serving:
> > Serving a branch that has shared repository data underneath does not work,
> > as bzr is not allowed to traverse up folder levels for security reasons...
> 
> How about this: at startup, check the branch that was given on the command
> line.  If it's using a repository at a higher directory, give an error.
> 
> Would it be possible to run the server on the repository and give a list
> of (to start with) all branches immediately underneath it?

Or perhaps, if I server a branch in a repository, find the repository
and allow it as the root, and constrain requests to be for the
repo .bzrdir, and all the paths under the repo root down to the branch,
but not siblings.

Rob

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