`bzr help urlspec` does not describe shortcuts

[Barry Warsaw]

E.g. it doesn't describe the lp: or ubuntu: or debianlp: protocols.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

These are directory services, and not supported in URLs. They are supported as part of the URL you can pass on to the bzr command-line utility but if you pass them to a bzrlib API it will probably try to interpret them as a path.

Perhaps we should just have a "bzr help locationspec" help topic that covers both, or add a pointer to directory services from the urlspec topic.

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

On Aug 29, 2011, at 03:15 PM, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

>These are directory services, and not supported in URLs. They are
>supported as part of the URL you can pass on to the bzr command-line
>utility but if you pass them to a bzrlib API it will probably try to
>interpret them as a path.
>
>Perhaps we should just have a "bzr help locationspec" help topic that
>covers both, or add a pointer to directory services from the urlspec
>topic.

Either option would work for me.