Can't perform per file commands on LP.

[Gary van der Merwe]

I'm not sure if this is a bzr or a lp code hosting bug, so I let some else triage it.

I would like to be able to perform per file commands directly on lp branches.

e.g.:
$ bzr log lp:qbzr/lib/commands.py
bzr: ERROR: Invalid url supplied to transport: "lp:qbzr/lib/commands.py": Project qbzr has no series called "lib"

$ bzr log bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Eqbzr-dev/qbzr/trunk/lib/commands.py
bzr: ERROR: Permission denied: "Cannot create 'lib'. Only Bazaar branches are allowed."

Same thing for annotate, cat etc...

[Jonathan Lange (jml)]

It's a Launchpad bug.

Fixing the lp: thing would require a change in our xmlrpc API. I'm not precisely sure why log raises an error like that with the fully expanded bzr+ssh url though.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:59 +0000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> It's a Launchpad bug.
>
> Fixing the lp: thing would require a change in our xmlrpc API. I'm not
> precisely sure why log raises an error like that with the fully expanded
> bzr+ssh url though.

bzr expects to probe dir at a time to work up to the root of the branch.
But lp's syntax is such that this doesn't work.

For the bzr+ssh path, I bet its an error on a missing path that doesn't
match the rules, rather than a simple NoSuchPath error.

-Rob