[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#578708: Bug#578708: bzr+ssh urls do not actually support /~/ as a path prefix

[Roland Mas]

Lars Wirzenius, 2010-04-22 10:58:12 +1200 :

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>>From "bzr help urlspec":
>
>     For bzr+ssh:// and sftp:// URLs, Bazaar also supports paths that begin
>     with '~' as meaning that the rest of the path should be interpreted
>     relative to the remote user's home directory.  For example if the user
>     ``remote`` has a  home directory of ``/home/remote`` on the server
>     shell.example.com, then:
>
>       bzr+ssh://remote@shell.example.com/~/myproject/trunk
>
>     would refer to ``/home/remote/myproject/trunk``.
>
> However, this does not seem to work:

My understanding is that the ~ handling is delegated to the remote bzr
process when you use bzr+ssh://, while it is done locally when you use
the “dumb” sftp:// protocol; as a consequence, ~ handling (which has
only existed since bzr 2.1) only works if the version of bzr installed
on the *remote* host is >= 2.1.

Roland.
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