No need to warn me about Launchpad username if I'm not doing a write operation

[Andrew Cowie]

I just did:

$ bzr branch lp:bzr-xmloutput

and it said:

You have not informed bzr of your launchpad login. If you are attempting a
write operation and it fails, run "bzr launchpad-login YOUR_ID" and try again.

before getting on with doing the branch,

Branched 106 revision(s).
$

This is silly. I'm not doing a write operation. I'm getting a *branch*.

Getting a branch from Launchpad could well be the very first thing that a developer using Bazaar for the first time does. This is not exactly an ideal first encounter with Bazaar, a DVCS which likes to claim that it is polished.

How about not bothering people with such a message until they are actually trying to do something that would involve _writing_ to a branch hosted at launchpad?

bzr 1.7

AfC

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

You are correct it is silly, and not desirable. However, the reason it says
"if you are doing a write operation" is that it doesn't know whether you
are.

When bzr requests the launchpad plugin do a directory service lookup
it doesn't tell it whether it wants to write to the transport.

Changing this will probably be quite a lot of work, but there are other
benefits from doing it, aside from fixing this message.

Thanks,

James

[Valerio Bozzolan (bozzy)]

Is there any suggested way to avoid this specific warning when creating a branch?