Sharing repository through a read-only web server
Adeodato Simó
dato at net.com.org.es
Mon Nov 12 16:04:42 GMT 2007
* Aaron Bentley [Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:37:00 -0500]:
> Ben Gerdemann wrote:
> > The problem is that when I try to checkout
> > the repository through the http server, bzr is looking for files that don't
> > exist.
> > bzr: ERROR: Transport error: Server refuses to fullfil the request for:
> > http://myserver/bzr-repo/home/.bzr/repository/format
> A repository with no format file is severely malformed. I would
> encourage you to check and double-check that repository/format is really
> not there, because I would expect Bazaar to always give an error about
> such a repository, whether locally or remotely.
Note that "home" is not the shared repository, but the branch. My guess
would be that http://myserver/bzr-repo/home/.bzr/repository/format is
returning "Forbidden" (403) instead of "Does not exist" (404).
So Bazaar can't detect that the branch is in a shared-repo.
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