bazaar launchpad branch creation
Martin Pool
mbp at canonical.com
Mon Mar 3 12:09:58 GMT 2008
On 03/03/2008, Erik Bågfors <zindar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Since my new web hotel doesn't support SFTP, I wanted to put bzr
> extmerge on launchpad instead. So I created a project, then went to
> define "trunk". I got this message
>
> ---
> You haven't yet told Launchpad where your source code is for External
> merge Series: trunk.
>
> If the code is already in a Bazaar branch registered with Launchpad
> link the branch to this series.
>
> If the code is in a Bazaar branch not yet on Launchpad you can either:
> have the branch mirrored from a remote location by registering a
> mirrored branch; or push the branch directly to Launchpad.
>
> You can push a branch to Launchpad for this project with the name
> trunk using a command line like:
> bzr push lp:~zindar/bzr-extmerge/trunk
> ---
Hi Erik,
Thanks for trying hosting, and reporting this issue.
>
> Ok, so I tried
> $ bzr push lp:~zindar/bzr-extmerge/trunk
> lp:~zindar/bzr-extmerge/trunk is redirected to
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~zindar/bzr-extmerge/trunk/
> bzr: ERROR: Transport operation not possible: http does not support mkdir()
I think this will work if you do 'bzr launchpad-login' first to tell
it you have an account and can write to Launchpad; however clearly the
ui is not making it at all clear that you need to do this.
>
> From what I understand, I should use sftp to upload a branch, and http
> to download. But I can't find any information of the url to the
> branch. Perhaps the lp plugin should try to use sftp if it's a push
> operation and http for pull/update/etc.
>
> I tried a wild guess
>
> $ bzr push sftp://launchpad.net/~zindar/bzr-extmerge/trunk
> ssh: connect to host launchpad.net port 22: Operation timed out
> bzr: ERROR: Unable to connect to SSH host launchpad.net; EOF during negotiation
>
> That didn't work.
I think it would work if you say bazaar.launchpad.net
--
Martin
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