crash while running register-branch

[Martin Pool]

On 09/01/2007, at 3:56am, John Arbash Meinel wrote:

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> Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I felt like using the launchpad plugin on an debian/etch system,  
>> which
>> comes with bzr 0.11. I haven't tried a newer version of bzr yet,  
>> and I
>> don't really need this plugin, since I'm used pushing my branches
>> directly.
>>
>> This mail is rather a question what this plugin is actually intended
>> for?
>>
>> Anyway, here the typescript:
>>
>> siretart- at hermes:~/scratch/packages/londonlaw/londonlaw.trunk
>>>> bzr register-branch .
>> launchpad.net password for siretart at tauware.de:
>> bzr: ERROR: xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault -1: 'Unexpected Zope  
>> exception: IntegrityError: ERROR:  new row for relation "branch"  
>> violates check constraint "valid_url"\n\n/*46912684383120*/ INSERT  
>> INTO Branch (id, current_conflicts_url, mirror_failures,  
>> current_delta_url, last_mirrored, lifecycle_status, product,  
>> landing_target, current_activity, last_scanned_id, title,  
>> home_page, home_page_locked, name, revision_count,  
>> last_mirrored_id, current_diff_deletes, mirror_status_message,  
>> owner, pull_disabled, cache_url, last_scanned, started_at, url,  
>> stats_updated, whiteboard, summary, branch_home_page, author,  
>> last_mirror_attempt, current_diff_adds, product_locked,  
>> branch_product_name) VALUES (2561, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, 1, NULL,  
>> NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, \'f\', \'.\', 0, NULL, NULL, NULL,  
>> 1219, \'f\', NULL, NULL, NULL, \'.\', NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,  
>> 1219, NULL, NULL, \'f\', NULL)'>
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>
> This isn't strictly a crash, just an overly zealous error reporting.
>
> The register-branch plugin could certainly use a little bit more error
> handling, rather than always giving a big traceback. (Try typing the
> wrong password, and you get a big traceback, where somewhere in  
> there is
> the information that the password was incorrect/login failed).

I think actually that should be done on the server side: just give us  
a reasonable error rather than exposing the guts.  https:// 
bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-bazaar/+bug/78522

> Anyway, you can't register a branch named ".", it expects you to  
> supply
> the public url for the branch. So you would give:
>
> bzr register-branch http://my-domain.com/foo/branch
>
> There are quite a few options to the command, and some of them are
> probably more required than optional.
>
> For example '--product'.
>
> If you do: 'bzr help register-branch' it gives a pretty good  
> example of
> how to use it.
>
> Basically, it does the work of going to Launchpad and filling out the
> information for your branch, so that Launchpad can mirror it.

Is there already some way we can determine a reasonable public url  
for the branch?
-- 
Martin