svn http/https transport

[Ricardo Kirkner]

Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

>> Following the same reasoning as before, the optimal choice would be
>> that bzr would use the svn credential store only if accessing a svn
>> branch. In order to do that, I guess it would have to store some
>> metadata about the credential store used when branched, so it can try
>> that out first. This would though create some overhead that was not
>> present so far, and might be desirable to avoid.
> I don't think that's necessary. The overhead is very very small though
> because all the extra work is accessing a couple of extra local files
> (it'll be a few ms at most), there is no network traffic involved. This
> overhead will only happen if the branch requires authentication *and*
> Bazaar didn't have credentials available itself, so it would have to
> prompt anyway if it didn't check the svn cache. Also, storing and
> retrieving what credentials store to use and then checking it will
> probably be just as expensive as checking both credential stores.

yes, if we assume we only want to check against these two stores. What 
if we would like to use a third (or fourth) optional store? (i am 
thinking of ldap here, for example). Then the cost of checking those 
additional stores would not be negligible, and so, another approach 
would have to be taken.

Now that I said that, I am beginning to think: this is what the 
authentication.conf file was created in the first place, right? :-) and 
the svn case is just a special case that is so common that we don't want 
it to be treated as special anymore...

I might be confusing a lot of people with my emails, but its helping me 
out to better understand bzr :-)

thanks for all the support