Storing repo on WebDAV

Rob ml.bazaar-ng at donotspam.sent.com
Wed Oct 17 01:58:02 BST 2007


On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:21:04 +0100
Ben Gerdemann <gmane at ibeni.net> wrote:

> Has anyone tried storing and accessing their .bzr repo through a WebDAV 
> server? I made some quick tests this morning with init and init-repo on 
> two different servers, and ran into several errors about missing .bzr 
> directories and lock files (sorry don't have the output with me right 
> now). I'm guessing that Bazaar uses some file system locking functions 
> or techniques to insure atomicity or ordering of file creation that 
> don't work through WebDAV. I mounted the server in Linux using davfs2.
> 
> Am I wasting my time even trying this? Is there another way?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben
> 
> 

I've successfully used wdfs.  Give that a try...

http://noedler.de/projekte/wdfs/

-Rob



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