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Password asked when visiting a file in a lightweight checkout

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5345 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Subject: bug#5345: Password asked when visiting a file in a lightweight  checkout
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 22:04:13 +0100

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 21:57, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> 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, but that
wouldn't grok file://c:/my/path (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.

    Juanma

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