[Python-Dev] HTTPS read-only SVN access is denied?

[Antoine Pitrou]

techtonik <techtonik <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> I do not need the whole branch - only a small subset of files related
> to distutils. I know that bazaar can't do partial checkouts - it can
> only fetch the whole branch. What about mercurial?

Mercurial can't do it either. But I don't think it matters a lot; unless your
bandwidth is very low the full clone should be fast enough. Here it takes just
150s. for the trunk.

> And why not to setup HTTPS for anonymous read and authorized write
> access? It is not that hard to do and will solve many problems with
> proxies.

I don't know really, someone else should answer.