Comment 2 for bug 836752

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote : Re: [Bug 836752] Re: `bzr help urlspec` does not describe shortcuts

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.