Newbie question - how to publish my repository

[Paul Moore]

On 30/07/07, Martin Pool <mbp at sourcefrog.net> wrote:
> Unfortunately without allowing Append, we can't write to this ftp
> server.  We will possibly support that from a future format, but it
> will not be for the next couple of releases I think.

Sigh. It's a rubbish server anyway. I really need to get a sensible provider.

> > Worse, when I went to tidy up, I find that the files on the server are not
> > deleteable - they show as having owner and group of "(?)".
>
> That's not us, we don't set the owner.

That was me. I had my FTP client not showing hidden files, so it
wasn't deleting the .bzr directories, and hence couldn't delete the
directory as it wasn't empty. The ownership was a red herring. Sorry
for the false alarm.

> It works as a push --overwrite, except that it would also obviously
> clobber the working tree.  You can use this for a mirror, then merge
> from it into your own branch.
>
> Also push over sftp and ftp doesn't update the working tree at all.

I just found the comment in the FAQ: "Bazaar is designed so you can
publish your branch on standard (dumb) servers." If I'd noticed that
earlier, I might have been a bit less confused...

Looks like I've still got too many misconceptions from reading about
other DVCSs (most notably Mercurial)...

Thanks,
Paul.