Accessing a remote repository on a web server using ftp with user and password

[Manlio Perillo]

Paul Moore ha scritto:
> On 13/09/2007, Massimo Manca <massimo.manca at micronengineering.it> wrote:
>> I have my company web pages hosted on a web server maintained by a
>> provider, I have also unlimited disk space so I would use some of it to
>> public our repositories. I am investigating to find a sw better then cvs
>> that may manage this situation. Actually I  would test Mercurial and Bazaar.
>>
>> - I can access to the space using ftp (read/write) and http (read), I
>> haven't sftp, ssh, https, aftp available.
> 
> I believe Bazaar handles read/write over FTP, but Mercurial does not.
> 
> Having said that, Bazaar requires certain features in FTP - notably
> the ability to append to an existing file - that not all FTP servers
> offer (my ISP doesn't :-(). That may be due to get fixed in future
> versions, but I'm not 100% sure of that.
> 

Is it possible to read the required repository files, to modify them 
locally and then recopy them to the remote host?

This is very inefficient, but may work.


Regards  Manlio Perillo