flag for formats that don't support readonly transports

[Jelmer Vernooij]

some foreign branch formats (svn, hg) don't actually use the transport API but just use it to get at a URL and then do their own thing.

This makes it impossible to support the readonly decorator for these formats. It would be nice if there was a flag we could set so the testsuite would skip tests that required readonly access.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

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On 3/8/2011 1:12 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> ** Changed in: bzr
> Status: Triaged => Confirmed
>

Would it be possible for them to do something special based on the
readonly decorator?

Seems like it would be nice to have readonly access to SVN just-in-case.

John
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[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 12:28 +0000, John A Meinel wrote:
> On 3/8/2011 1:12 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > ** Changed in: bzr
> > Status: Triaged => Confirmed
> >
> Would it be possible for them to do something special based on the
> readonly decorator?
>
> Seems like it would be nice to have readonly access to SVN just-in-case.
That's a good idea.

For Subversion we could add a readonly decorator for the subvertpy
transport functions and enable that in bzr-svn when the passed in
transport has is_readonly() set. I'll file a bug about this.

In Mercurial it's trickier because all repository access is hidden from
us and fairly high level.

Cheers,

Jelmer

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

I've worked around this with a decorator in bzr-svn, as John suggested. That turned out to be a lot easier than I had expected.