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

From: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 11:20:52 -0800 (PST)

Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]> writes:

  > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 19:46, Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]> wrote:
  > 
  > > The third slash is part of the absolute file name
  > 
  > Not for Windows file:// URIs. For example, in one of my lightweight

I meant for unix-like systems.

  > checkouts, .bzr/branch/location contains:
  > 
  >   file:///C:/emacs/repo/bugs/5313/

Is that the correct URL syntax?  If not, they please let the bzr people
know about it.

  > > so it needs to stay.
  > 
  > OK, then we must also check whether the absolute filename is
  > Windows-style, i.e. ^/?[A-Z]:.*$ (assuming the unwanted first slash).
  > Do you want to fix it?

No.  I can't test it.
But please do it with a system-type test, /C:/emacs/repo/bugs/5313/ is a
valid unix file name.  Probably not used too much, but valid, so it
should not be excluded.