bazaar launchpad branch creation

[Alexander Belchenko]

Erik Bågfors пишет:
> 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
> ---
> 
> 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()
> 
> 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.
> 
> Now what?

We have nice tutorial inside Bazaar sources and distro (I hope) entitled
"Using Bazaar with Launchpad". It covers many details.
If it's not enough, please, say so. And I hope Ian improve it further.