Request for addition of new method to support bitten

[alien.technology@…]

Background to this ticket is, I've been looking at using multirepos support with Bitten.

It would be useful to have a get_repository_by_path method on the Trac Environment object to support automated building in a multi-repository environment. Patch attached, and I'll be submitting a corresponding patch on a Bitten ticket.

[alien.technology@…]

Patch on the sandbox/multirepos branch, revision r7684, adds the Environment.get_repository_by_path method

[alien.technology@…]

See ​http://bitten.edgewall.org/ticket/342

[Christian Boos]

Well, I'm against the proliferation of one-liner methods (read: this is not Java!). You could directly call:

  RepositoryManager(self.env).get_repository_by_path(path, authname)

from Bitten.

Granted, there are other one-liners there (get_repository(), get_all_repositories()), but those are used a lot within Trac itself, so the trade-off looks better in their case.