push to a windows ftp server

[Stefan Reichör]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> Well, I merged it onto bzr.dev, so you can now do:
>
> bzr get http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev
>
> Which will create a local copy of bzr.dev on your machine.
>
> Then you can either run from source, or run 'python setup.py install'.
>
> I'm a little concerned about the error that you are getting. In general,
> ftp servers aren't good at giving reasons for why they fail, generally
> just telling us that "I can't do that". (Which doesn't tell us if the
> parent didn't exist, or if the directory we are creating does exist).
>
> I have also heard about ftp servers that don't allow you to create dot
> files (files starting with a single '.').
>
> At this point, the only one we create is '.bzr', and there is some work
> which might make it easier to use '_bzr'.

I use the bzr.dev branch now.

The first thing I saw, that I was prompted for the password, although I
had given it via:

bzr push ftp://user:passwd@xsteve.at/a2 

The following failure happened:

bzr: ERROR: FTP failed for path: /a2/.bzr/branch-lock: could not store: 550 /a2/.bzr/branch-lock: Cannot create a file when that file already exists.

The following files exist on the ftp server:

/a2/.bzr
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group              27 Jun  9 21:30 branch-format
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group               0 Jun  9 21:30 branch-lock
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group               0 Jun  9 21:30 branch-lock.tmp.1149881198.692691088.5497.1858962088
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group              82 Jun  9 21:30 README


Stefan.