Abnormalities during creation of stacked repository

[Ken Tang]

Hello All

Using Bazaar 1.18, I created a shared repository on an SFTP central
server using format 1.9
Then I created a main branch under that.
Then I made a local copy of the branch, creating a stacked branch.
The trouble that I had is:
	1) it asks for my ssh password to the server 5 times.  How can I avoid
this?
	2) The status message returned during creation of the branch contains
"Source branch format does not support stacking, using format:
Branch format 7"  Why is this when I used format 1.9? The same thing
happens when using format 1.6 for the repository.

Does 1.9 really support stacked branches?  The documentation is unclear.

The full status message returned from the branching operation is below.

Thanks in advance.

KT

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        Connected (version 2.0, client OpenSSH_3.8.1p1)
        
        password ignored in section [DEFAULT], use an ssh agent instead
        
        Authentication (password) successful!
        
        Secsh channel 1 opened.
        
        [chan 1] Opened sftp connection (server version 3)
        
        Source branch format does not support stacking, using format:
        
        Branch format 7
        
        Connected (version 2.0, client OpenSSH_3.8.1p1)
        
        password ignored in section [DEFAULT], use an ssh agent instead
        
        Authentication (password) successful!
        
        Secsh channel 1 opened.
        
        [chan 1] Opened sftp connection (server version 3)
        
        Connected (version 2.0, client OpenSSH_3.8.1p1)
        
        password ignored in section [DEFAULT], use an ssh agent instead
        
        Authentication (password) successful!
        
        Secsh channel 1 opened.
        
        [chan 1] Opened sftp connection (server version 3)
        
        Connected (version 2.0, client OpenSSH_3.8.1p1)
        
        password ignored in section [DEFAULT], use an ssh agent instead
        
        Authentication (password) successful!
        
        Secsh channel 1 opened.
        
        [chan 1] Opened sftp connection (server version 3)
        
        Connected (version 2.0, client OpenSSH_3.8.1p1)
        
        password ignored in section [DEFAULT], use an ssh agent instead
        
        Authentication (password) successful!
        
        Secsh channel 1 opened.
        
        [chan 1] Opened sftp connection (server version 3)
        
        Created new stacked branch referring to
        sftp://vm-svr0005/cygdrive/c/bzrRepository/Proj5/trunk/.