Strange diagnostic trying to access remote hosts?

[Erik Bågfors]

2006/2/7, Reg. Charney <charney at charneyday.com>:
> Thanks Erik,
>
> Unfortunately, this solution got rid of the error I mention, but raised
> another one:
>
> reg at localhost:~/XMLandCSS> bzr pull
> sftp://reg@remote-host:/home/reg/XMLandCSS
>
> resulted in:
>
> bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: /
>
> While this is true, I don't know why it is trying to access the root of
> the remote(?) system.

Because you wrote the url wrong? remove the : first of all.  And if
you are using 0.7, you can remove home/reg as well since 0.7 defaults
to $HOME.  bzr.dev (0.8pre) doesn't


> (BTW, to use "bzr pull", both the paramiko and pycrypto library modules
> are needed. This is fair enough, but since "pull" is a built-in command
> (I believe), then the distribution should list these modules in bzr's
> list of requirements, or supply them in the distribution.)

Agreed.

/Erik