Subversion plugin interferes with push to sftp locations

[James Henstridge]

I was trying to push a branch to sftp;//bazaar.launchpad.net and got a weird error I hadn't seen before. Looking at the traceback in ~/.bzr.log, it seems that it was caused by the bzr-svn plugin. Here is the relevant traceback:

created control directory in sftp://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ejamesh/%2Bjunk/gnome-vfs-obex-method/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 611, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 573, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 282, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 623, in run
    revision_id=br_from.last_revision())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 138, in clone
    result_repo = result.find_repository()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 359, in find_repository
    found_bzrdir = BzrDir.open_containing_from_transport(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 526, in open_containing_from_transport
    result = BzrDir.open_from_transport(a_transport)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 486, in open_from_transport
    return format.open(transport, _found=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 1131, in open
    return self._open(transport)
  File "/home/james/.bazaar/plugins/bzr-svn/checkout.py", line 551, in _open
    return SvnCheckout(transport, self)
  File "/home/james/.bazaar/plugins/bzr-svn/checkout.py", line 471, in __init__
    self.local_path = transport.local_abspath(".")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/transport/__init__.py", line 386, in local_abspath
    raise errors.TransportNotPossible('This is not a LocalTransport,'
TransportNotPossible: Transport operation not possible: This is not a LocalTransport, so there is no local representation for a path %

This was with r229 of bzr-svn and the bzr-0.11-0ubuntu1 package.

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

In case it isn't obvious from the traceback above, the directory on bazaar.launchpad.net didn't previously exist, which is probably why the bzr-svn control dir check is being invoked.

I guess there should be some check in the bzr-svn code to ensure it is working with a local transport instance first.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I just saw the same thing. In order to recover, I had to clean up .bzr on the supermirror via sftp by hand, then manually hack the bzr sftp transport not to object to mkdir-ing a directory that already existed. Pretty horrible.

creating directory sftp://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-core-dev/cdebconf/ubuntu/ => ubuntu
created control directory in sftp://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-core-dev/cdebconf/ubuntu/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 611, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 573, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 282, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 623, in run
    revision_id=br_from.last_revision())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 138, in clone
    result_repo = result.find_repository()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 359, in find_repository
    found_bzrdir = BzrDir.open_containing_from_transport(
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 526, in open_containing_from_transport
    result = BzrDir.open_from_transport(a_transport)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 486, in open_from_transport
    return format.open(transport, _found=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/bzrdir.py", line 1131, in open
    return self._open(transport)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/svn/checkout.py", line 550, in _open
    return SvnCheckout(transport, self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/svn/checkout.py", line 470, in __init__
    self.local_path = transport.local_abspath(".")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/transport/__init__.py", line 386, in local_abspath
    raise errors.TransportNotPossible('This is not a LocalTransport,'
TransportNotPossible: Transport operation not possible: This is not a LocalTransport, so there is no local representation for a path