bzrlib and branch discovery

[Maritza Mendez]

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Gabriel Filion <lelutin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/08/10 01:07 PM, Maritza Mendez wrote:
> > Since webservers parse requests to determine which "handler" to apply to
> a
> > given request, it should be possible to provide a server-side script
> which
> > parses a request for a named secondary location and returns plaintext
>  (or
> > maybe the DTD of your choice) listing of that secondary location.  This
> is
> > flexible enough to allow the server to do all sorts of security checks,
> > which I would certainly insist upon it it were my server.
> >
>
> ouch, this sounds more like a hack.. it covers only the servers that are
> kind enough to add such a script.
> listing subbranches should have been made easier for shared
> repositories. for instance having a file contains a list of the
> available branches that is maintained by the different operations on the
> repository. it's redundant, but it's not such a big cost on performance
> and it makes it possible to list branches over http.
>
>
I don't disagree.  Some might claim that the web itself is a hack codified
in RFCs.  I would not disagree with them, either.  Your prospects would seem
to lie which whichever group -- the core bzr developers, or the server
administrators -- is more amenable to your persuasion.  Come to think of it,
it might seem reasonable to hope that the bzr smart sever would implement
what you need.

Best of luck,
~M
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