bug#5345: Password asked when visiting a file in a lightweight checkout

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 21:57, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> We were discussing before if file://c:/some/where.txt also was
>> correct. We could not rule out the possibility that it was.
>
> I don't think it is. RFC 1378 allows file://host/path, and some other
> RFC (don't remember the #) apparently allows file:/path,


I am surprised, but I do not remember the details any more.


> but that
> wouldn't grok file://c:/my/path


... on un*x? ... ;-)

Maybe this is where the confusion comes from (but the spec seemed
unclear to me).


(though it could grok file://my/path,
> if the drive is omitted).
>
>> So please take care of this case too.
>
> It's already taken care of. Look at the patch.


Thanks.


>    Juanma
>