Relitive paths with ssh

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Neil Martinsen-Burrell wrote:
> hessiess at hessiess.com wrote:
>> I am attempting to set up a personal web server where each website is an
>> independent bzr tree. Each tree has its own user with the home dir set to
>> the web root, and I can successfully log into the home dir
>>
>> ssh user at server
>>
>> However if I attempt to check out one of these directories
>>
>> bzr checkout sftp://user@server
>>
>> for some reason SSH resolves to the servers root dir, requiring the
>> absolute path to be specified. Is there any way to make bzr resolve to
>> the
>> users home dir?
> 
> This is a pending feature request for Bazaar to provide a syntax for
> referring to paths relative to the home directory.  See
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/224400 for more discussion.
> 
> I've thought about trying to fix it before, but it is sufficiently
> low-level that I've never felt confident in where to make the change. If
> someone wanted to comment on the bug with a recommended approach, I'd
> take a shot at coding it up.
> 
> -Neil
> 
> 

Except for 'sftp' you can already just do:

bzr checkout sftp://user@server/~/stuff/in/home

John
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