Branches on http when serving hidden files is disabled

[Martin Pool]

On 24 May 2006, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> > 
> > The best I could think of was to have a flag in the config, and then you
> > could wildcard match so that new branches would be created with _bzr. It
> > wouldn't be trivial, but it doesn't seem that hard to do.
> 
> I think we should rename ~/.bazaar/branches.conf to
> ~/.bazaar/locations.conf.  And make it cascade.  Then we can do
> 
> [sftp://]
> visible_control = "yes"

I agree.

> But it might also make sense to have treeless branches use _bzr by default.

It might, but I'm hesitant to add heuristic behaviour until we're sure
it's right.  To start with I'd like to just match _bzr if the user's
renamed it by hand.

-- 
Martin