The Jelmer "fork" of bzr.dev

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "Russel" == Russel Winder <russel.winder at concertant.com> writes:

    Russel> Jelmer,
    Russel> On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 23:59 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

    >> Bazaar will already ask for the credentials only once if credentials are
    >> asked. The problem in this particular situation is that GET and OPTIONS
    >> requests (used by bzr-svn) don't require authentication while POST
    >> requests (tried by bzr's smart protocol client) do. We don't want Bazaar
    >> to ask for credentials here at all, but as the smart client gets to
    >> probe the URL before bzr-svn does the user will see a prompt.
    >> 
    >> Perhaps Bazaar should try all formats without using authentication first
    >> and if there's no format that succeeded prompt the user and try the
    >> formats that required authentication. That's quite a lot of
    >> restructuring to implement properly though :-/

    Russel> This all seems like Bazaar internals are getting in
    Russel> the way of what the user knows to be straightforward
    Russel> and simple: I know that the project at the end of the
    Russel> URL is a Subversion one that I can access without
    Russel> authentication.

So you don't need the automatic smart server probe.

Try using nosmart+http:

    Vincent