sftp urls are interpreted as a local paths

[John A Meinel]

Haakon Riiser wrote:
> I'm trying out bzr for the first time, and I'm having trouble
> with sftp urls.  Example:
> 
>   $ rm -rf foo; mkdir foo; cd foo
>   $ bzr checkout sftp://user@host/~/path/to/branch/ branch
>   bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: /tmp/sftp:/user at host/~/path/to/branch/
>   $ bzr version | head -1
>   bzr (bazaar-ng) 0.8
> 
> Notice that the error message indicates that bzr never tries to
> access the specified host using sftp.  Instead, it tries the local
> path /tmp/sftp:/user at host/~/path/to/branch/.
> 
> Tried both the wiki and the mailing list archives, but without any
> luck.  Have I missed something obvious?
> 

Without paramiko installed, sftp support is not enabled, so bzr tries
all other handlers (finishing with the local path handler).

We need to improve the error message, and I have some work in progress
to do this.

John
=:->


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