bzr serve and access control?

[Ben Finney]

Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> writes:

> So, given a branch like //host/srv/repo/a_project/branch, how exactly
> does bzr find out that it is located in the repository at
> //host/srv/repo?

By walking up the path components, looking for a repository directory:

* Is there a repository “here”, //host/srv/repo/a_project/branch/ ?
* Is there a repository in the parent, //host/srv/repo/a_project/ ?
* Is there a repository in the parent's parent, //host/srv/repo/ ?

et cetera, until it finds a repository (a hit, which terminates the
search) or reaches the root of the path (a miss, indicating the path is
not inside a repository).

At least, that's how it worked many months ago when I investigated this
feature. Trust an answer from the developers better than me on this one.

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Ben Finney