please explain the hg plugin

[Martin Pool]

2009/12/16 Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au>:
> Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> writes:
>
>> 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?"

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>