Pithy answer to "Why set a public branch?"

[Robert Collins]

On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 23:54 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 09:43 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > A public branch setting tells bzr where a branch is published. sending a
> > bundle, making email notifications, lp-open - pretty much anything where
> > you want to tell someone else where the branch is uses this.
> > 
> > If its not set explicitly, I think it defaults to the push_location, or
> > perhaps it doesn't but should.
> I don't think the push_location is a good default for the
> public_location. The push_location is usually a bzr+ssh:// or sftp://
> URL, and that's usually not available by the rest of the world. 

I think it depends on the url.
svn:// urls are usually world usable [perhaps requiring auth, but the
same url], as are http://, and lp:. bzr+ssh://host/~/ urls are not world
usable, nor are sftp://host/~/ urls. sftp://host/abspath *may be*.
bzr://host/ probably are.

We can do a lot better than 'never' even if we can't get it right all
the time.

-Rob
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