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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:52:12 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:51:44 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Can handling as a remote file name be disabled?
> > The code path in question makes sense when the file is local, if the
> > file is remote, then just running the corresponding bzr command won't
> > make a difference.
> 
> Adding "/:" at the top of the file name is one way. Another (maybe more
> common) is let-binding `file-name-handler-alist' to nil.

But the latter is too gross, isn't it?  `file-name-handler-alist'
could hold anything, not just handlers for remote files.