Comment 8 for bug 2003950

It's okay if Launchpad returns "No branch found" if the path specified doesn't match a branch exactly but contains more path elements - it's the fact that it silently ignores the suffix at the moment that's the problem.

Breezy already walks up the directory structure (trying lp:ubuntu-test-cases/testsuites/default, then lp:ubuntu-tests-cases/testsuites, then lp:ubuntu-test-cases) until it finds somewhere that has a branch.

Yeah, the XML/RPC nature was problematic - there was hacks in the HTTP code to make it work. The HTTP code in breezy is generally a large collection of workarounds on top of urllib, and everything that can be stripped away helps. Less baggage as we explore asyncio support is also helpful.