invalid example in EasyBranching page

[anatoly techtonik]

I am new to Bazaar and while reading basic documentation I've got a stacktrace when running an example from https://help.launchpad.net/FeatureHighlights/EasyBranching that instructs to use the following command to create GNU Hello branch.

bzr branch http://launchpad.net/gnuhello

It results in the following error.

bzr: ERROR: bzrlib.errors.PathNotChild: Path "http://launchpad.net/gnuhello/.bzr/branch-format" is not a child of path "nosmart+http://launchpad.net/gnuhello/"

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyc", line 846, in run_bzr_catch_errors
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyc", line 797, in run_bzr
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyc", line 499, in run_argv_aliases
  File "bzrlib\builtins.pyc", line 916, in run
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyc", line 789, in open_tree_or_branch
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyc", line 667, in open
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyc", line 704, in open_from_transport
  File "bzrlib\lazy_import.pyc", line 125, in __call__
  File "bzrlib\transport\__init__.pyc", line 1620, in do_catching_redirections
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyc", line 685, in redirected
  File "bzrlib\transport\__init__.pyc", line 494, in relpath
PathNotChild: Path "http://launchpad.net/gnuhello/.bzr/branch-format" is not a child of path "nosmart+http://launchpad.net/gnuhello/"

bzr 1.5 on python 2.5.2 (win32)
arguments: ['bzr', 'branch', 'nosmart+http://launchpad.net/gnuhello']
encoding: 'cp1251', fsenc: 'mbcs', lang: 'C'
plugins:
  launchpad C:\Tools\VCS\Bazaar\plugins\launchpad [unknown]
*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error.
    Please report a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
    including this traceback, and a description of what you
    were doing when the error occurred.

What makes me feel that docs are wrong is that "bzr branch nosmart+http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev" command works as expected.

[anatoly techtonik (techtonik)]

bzr + launchpasd will not be as popular as it could without instructions how to setup and _use_ SSH keys for bzr+lp in various environments, i.e. need to run Pageant to use generated key for auth on Windows.

[anatoly techtonik (techtonik)]

John A Meinel provided the correct replacement at https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/37893 for invalid command

  bzr branch http://launchpad.net/gnuhello

to be

  bzr branch https://code.launchpad.net/gnuhello

[Jonathan Lange (jml)]

Thanks techtonik

I've updated the wiki page and filed bug 246783 to track the SSH key agent documentation.