The Jelmer "fork" of bzr.dev

[Russel Winder]

Jelmer,

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 22:07 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Hi Russel,
> 
> Russel Winder wrote:
> > I gave your "fork" of bzr.dev a whirl.   I am not sure whether it is any
> > faster at accessing Subversion repositories because the user/passwords
> > always have to be presented manually for https access; bzr.dev seems to
> > use the stored values in ~/.subversion/auth/svn.simple.
> >
> > Can you revert your fork to the behaviour of bzr.dev which seems to use
> > the authorities available automatically?
> >   
> 
> FWIW the behaviour in bzr.dev is *also* wrong, it just happens to not
> prompt for usernames but silently fails. In this particular case that's
> not a problem since your credentials are in ~/.subversion. However, if
> you were using a repository for which you didn't have any credentials
> stored in ~/.subversion then you would just get a "Permission denied error".

OK, I didn't think of that one "bzr.dev works the way I want but only
because it does the wrong thing wrong" :-)

> This should be fixed now in bzr.foreign, but in a different way.
> bzr.foreign will now *always* check the Subversion credentials store and
> if that doesn't work resort back to prompting the user.

I have fully updated all my branches and now find:

1.  svn+http is not acceptable.  OK it's deprecated in bzr.dev but it
still works.

2.  I am being asked for login authorization for http access which I
think must be wrong, login should only be required for https.
 
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Russel.
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