Launchpad itself

New import page should provide help on choosing right URLs for branches.

Bug #246803 reported by Jonathan Lange
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

The imports page also doesn't make it clear whether one should have add /trunk to the end of the Subversion URL. It does say that only trunk will be imported, but that doesn't help with entering the right URL.

See https://code.edge.launchpad.net/+code-imports/+new
"The URL of a Subversion branch, starting with svn:// or http(s)://. Only trunk branches are imported."

Tags: lp-code ui
Jonathan Lange (jml)
Changed in launchpad-bazaar:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

Well... not all branches actually end in trunk. Some SVN repos are organized with trunk at the top, module under, so you have

  svn://repo.com/trunk/projectname
  svn://repo.com/branches/1.0/projectname

How could we do much better here? I think the UI is actually not that bad right now!

Changed in launchpad-bazaar:
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :

When the UI says "Only trunk branches are imported", it made me wonder whether it would look at the URL I gave it and check for a 'trunk' directory. The fact that I'd just typed in the branch's name compounded this.

That said, no obviously better approach leaps to mind. I'm happy to mark this bug as invalid.

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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

I think there's a nomenclature issue here that makes it hard to describe exactly what it is we import. What do you call "what comes after trunk/ in a trunk import", and also, "what trunk is", considering that it is called HEAD in CVS, and tip in others?

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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :

My preferred name is "mainline".

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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote :

While perhaps this bug report is a bit vague and the fix isn't clear, we should still do something to try to alleviate the confusion our users demonstrably have with this form. So, setting it back to Triaged.

Changed in launchpad-bazaar:
status: Incomplete → Triaged
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Medium → Low
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