checkout/update from google code

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 07:24:22AM -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 01:19:52PM +0530, Parth Malwankar wrote:
> >> I tried to update a checkout of a project from
> >> google code and found the following message. The
> >> same behaviour is seen for 'bzr checkout'. Subversion
> >> seems to be working fine.

> >> I am using bzr 1.15 with bzr-svn 0.6.1 (both ppa) on
> >> ubuntu 9.04.

> >> Do I need to do anything differently for this to
> >> work?

> >> Thanks,
> >> Parth

> >> [src]% bzr checkout http://clojure.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ clojure-read-only
> >> HTTP clojure.googlecode.com, Realm: 'Google Code Subversion
> >> Repository' username: ^Cbzr: interrupted

> > Bazaar attempts to send a POST request to code.google.com to see if
> > there is a smart server running there but code.google.com replies with
> > a 401 Auth required, which causes Bazaar to prompt for authentication.

> > The only way to work around this at the moment is to prepend the URL
> > with svn+.

> I'm pretty sure you can use "nosmart+http://" as well, since nosmart+
> disables the POST request.
nosmart also breaks bzr-svn, although I'm not sure why exactly.

Cheers,

Jelmer