Re: [Savannah-help-public] Bzr repositories on savannah?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> We intend to move Emacs's main repository from CVS to Bzr (tho not
>> immediately, but in the mean time we have a read-only mirror that allows
>> us to try things out and see how/if things work).  I heard that there's
>> some preliminary support for Bzr on savannah, what does it look like?
>> 
>> Since Bzr supports the "sftp" access method, we can of course in the
>> worst case temporarily (ab)use some space on arch.sv.gnu.org, but I'd
>> much rather use something a bit cleaner if possible.

> It looks like this (test repository):
> - read-only access (hpss):
>   bzr branch bzr://cvs.sv.gnu.org/administration/repo1
> - write access (ssh):
>   bzr push bzr+ssh://address@hidden/administration/repo1
> - slow "dump-protocol" access (http):
>   bzr branch http://cvs.sv.gnu.org/b/administration/repo1

> There's no direct shell access.

> We can instanciate a repository for Emacs.

> This hasn't been extensively tested, consider this beta service :)

Doesn't sound much more appealing than abusing sftp://arch.sv.gnu.org.
But please do tell me when savannah's support of Bzr is a bit more
"mature" ;-)


        Stefan