bzrlib and branch discovery

[Marius Kruger]

On 7 August 2010 10:54, Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Gabriel Filion <lelutin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Is branch discovery possible at all with repositories hosted via http?

AFAICT if its apache

> 'branches' is just a CLI wrapper around the API he's already using, so
> it won't really change anything.

ehm, actually not exactly. bzrtools' branches command can screen scrape
apache directory listings (this is not in bzrlib).
The problem is that there is no universal way to get directory
listings over http.

On 7 August 2010 10:22, Gabriel Filion <lelutin at gmail.com> wrote:
> However, bzr branches seems to fair only as good as I could with bzrlib:
>
> $ bzr branches lp:bzr
> You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
> write to Launchpad or access private data.  See "bzr help launchpad-login".

actually lp: = bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/
as you can see in the message from bzr, you need to "login" to
launchpad before you can ssh in.
See "bzr help launchpad-login"

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<>< Marius ><>