[PATCH 2 of 3 V6] hgweb: teach archive how to download a specific directory or file

[Kevin Bullock]

On 20 Mar 2013, at 11:12 AM, Pierre-Yves David wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 04:20:26PM +0100, Angel Ezquerra wrote:
>> I agree. In fact that is what the patch does already. This means that
>> if you try to use _any_ pattern (including "path") the web server will
>> respond with an error. The only difference is that if you try to use a
>> "known" pattern the server will respond with a nice 403 "Archive
>> pattern not allowed" message.
> 
> And what if the repo contains a root directory whose name starts with
> this very known pattern?

Do the same thing we do on the command line and let people explicitly prefix such names with 'path:'?

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