bzr serve and access control?

[Gordon Tyler]

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On 2/2/2010 6:31 PM, Josef Wolf wrote:
>> Then the server would refuse access to the 'repository'. The client does
>> not know *where* the repository is until we've connected. (As it could
>> have been in /srv/repo, or /srv/repo/a_project or
>> /srv/repo/a_project/branch.)
> 
> How comes that the client doesn't know where the repos is located although
> I have passed this information on the command line?
> 
> If you say "bzr branch bzr+ssh://host/srv/repo/a_project/branch" (as in
> your example above), it looks pretty much as you are trying to access
> /svn/repo/a_project/branch on "host". How comes that bzr client is not able
> to know that? How can it retrieve the data when it doesn't know where to
> get it from?

The path that you give to bzr is the location of the *branch* and not
the *repository*. bzr needs access to both. However, it cannot locate
the repository until it reads the branch data (which contains a pointer
to the repository) and to read the branch data it needs to start the
'bzr serve' process.

Ciao,
Gordon
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