Comment 12 for bug 878085

> But here's a question to the 'bzr-git' devels: Why would 'bzr branch ..' fail while importing directly from Google Code, but work
> when the GIT repo has first been cloned locally?
There are different code paths in bzr-git that handle local and remote repositories; presumably the remote repository path doesn't work for some reason.

> Could this be implemented on Launchpad to allow automatic code imports from Google GIT?
Possibly, but it would be a fairly complicated fix considering how the imports work; it will be easier to just fix the underlying bug in dulwich or bzr-git.