[BUG] transport.local: when local path given in url form

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:57:41PM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> > When I run push command with local path that given in url form with
> > 'file://' prefix I got error:
> > 
> > E:\work\Python\bzr\bzr.dev>python bzr push file://d:/push/bzr.dev
> > bzr: ERROR: Path u'E:/work/Python/bzr/bzr.dev/file:/d:/push/bzr.dev' is
> > not a child of path u'd:/push'
> > 
> > I think it's because LocalTransport.relpath() method does not handle
> > this case (when path specified with 'file://' prefix).
> > 
> > -- 
> > Alexander
> > 
> > 
> 
> Yeah, I think LocalTransport is supposed to strip off the file:// stuff.
> 
> I'm not really sure what a correct windows file:// url looks like. I
> know on linux you end up with triple slashes "file:///usr/local/foo".
> I assume that you can go to your browser and type:

The third slash is special cased to resolve to 'localhost' afaik.

Wouter van Heyst