Abnormalities during creation of stacked repository

[Martin Pool]

2009/9/16 Ken Tang <ktlb at eol.ca>:
> 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.

Yes, format 1.9 supports stacked branches.

However, I'm not sure if stacked branches are the best choice for you,
because they're normally intended to be on the same disk, not spanning
the network.  We'd like to support having some history local and some
remote but stacked branches are not optimized for this yet.

So I'd recommend just branching to your local machine, and committing
there, rather than using stacking.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>