breezy behavior wrt lp: [Was Re: git-ubuntu build]

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 08:54:23AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 03:29:11PM +0200, Paride Legovini wrote:
> > What happens is that Breezy finds the lp: shorthand and resolves it to a
> > Git URL, then fails if we were actually pointing it to a Bazaar repo.
> 
> > For example this fails on my Mantic system if I use lp: for Git:
> 
> >   bzr branch lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/meta-release/ubuntu
> 
> > I now use lpad: as a shorthand for Launchpad Git repos:
> 
> > [url "ssh://paride@git.launchpad.net/"]
> > 	insteadOf = lpad:
> 
> I had encountered this behavior, but hadn't realized it was on account of my
> own git config!
> 
> For my part, I dug through the code and discovered that lp+bzr:
> (undocumented AFAIK) works to force the use of bzr.  Since I do a lot more
> git checkouts that bzr from Launchpad these days (a trend that is only
> likely to continue), this is what I'm sticking with, reserving the shorter
> shortcut for git.

My hero!  I also mostly use git these days, but I still need to use bzr
often enough that having to type out the full URL had become a
noticeable annoyance.  lp+bzr: definitely helps.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]