Can't get sftp to work on Mac OS X or Cygwin

[John A Meinel]

John Whitley wrote:
> I'm seeing essentially identical sftp push failures from .bzr.log's
> perspective on both Cygwin and Mac OS X.  The error message is either
> unhelpful or outright misleading.  I've got paramiko-1.5.4 and
> pycrypto-2.0.1 installed on both systems, and can import these modules
> manually in python.  FYI, pycrypto's egg-based install seems to be
> broken on Cygwin -- it fails to make the .egg file executable, which
> causes the binary extension modules (e.g. Crypto.Cipher.DES3) to fail to
> load.
> 
> Generic repro steps
> -------------------
> $ ssh host.org
> $ mkdir bzr; cd bzr
> $ bzr init test
> $ exit
> $ mkdir bzr; cd bzr
> $ bzr init test
> $ cd test
> $ echo "this is a test" > a-file.txt
> $ bzr add
> $ bzr commit -m "stuff"
> $ bzr push sftp://host.org/bzr/test
> bzr: ERROR: Parent directory of sftp://host.org/bzr/test does not exist.
> 

Paths give by 'sftp://host/' are absolute path urls. So you need to
either do:

sftp://host.org/~/bzr/test
Or
sftp://host.org/home/user/bzr/test

The above problem is that the directory '/bzr' does not exist on 'host.org'.

John
=:->

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