please explain the hg plugin

[Martin Pool]

2009/12/16 John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>:
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> Martin Pool wrote:
>> 2009/12/16 Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au>:
>>> Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> writes:
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>>>> Le mercredi 16 décembre 2009 à 00:52 +0200, Alexander Belchenko a
>>>> écrit :
>>>>> bzr branch https://spyderlib.googlecode.com/hg/ spyderlib
>>>> Unfortunately this doesn't actually appear to work. We have a similar
>>>> problem with bzr-hg against Google code as we have for bzr-svn: Google
>>>> will return an error 405 when bzr attempts to access
>>>> .bzr/branch-format.
>>> Does this conform to the HTTP specification? Is there a discovery
>>> mechanism that Bazaar can use that would work in the presence of any
>>> standards-compliant HTTP service?
>>
>> 405 is 'not allowed', which is imo (without rereading the spec) a
>> reasonable thing for an http server to do if it doesn't want to let
>> you post to that url.  We should probably cleanly handle that as "no
>> smart server here?"

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/497274

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