Branches on http when serving hidden files is disabled

[Matthieu Moy]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> Keir Mierle wrote:
>>>> The webserver I put quickbranch[1] on doesn't allow me to serve hidden files,
>>>> and short of getting another server, I can't change it. Is there any way to
>>>> publish a bzr branch when serving . files is impossible?
>> 
>> Not presently.  We'd like to support _bzr as an alternative to .bzr,
>> both for servers that don't support serving hidden files, and so that
>> branches don't appear to be empty.
>> 
>> Aaron
>
> It doesn't seem very hard to add support such that if we don't find
> '.bzr' we use '_bzr' instead. But how do we decide when we want to
> create a new branch?

I'd suggest not adding a way to do that in the UI at first, or at
least, leave it undocumented for some time. Branches using _bzr will
be unusable with bzr 0.8 which is supposed to be able to use the
future formats for at least 1 year.

Ideally, version 0.8+1 would accept _bzr, and version 0.8+2 would be
able to create it. In case someone really needs _bzr, he can anyway do
the "mv" manually, and do the first upload manually.

-- 
Matthieu