"no repository present" error should suggest using bzr branch

At present the error is:
bzr: ERROR: No repository present: 'file:///Users/jameinel/test-hgrep/'

Are you thinking to change that to:
bzr: ERROR: No repository present: 'file:///Users/jameinel/test-hgrep/'
This usually means a branch was moved or copied manually, rather than using 'bzr branch'.

That explanation helps a lot, and would have avoided the confusion I had.

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John A Meinel wrote:
> At present the error is:
> bzr: ERROR: No repository present: 'file:///Users/jameinel/test-hgrep/'
>
> Are you thinking to change that to:
> bzr: ERROR: No repository present: 'file:///Users/jameinel/test-hgrep/'
> This usually means a branch was moved or copied manually, rather than using 'bzr branch'.

It would be nice if the message didn't imply that copying or moving
branches manually was *always* bad. (Moving or copying manually
*inside* the repo is encouraged.)

'This branch has no repository: "/Users/jameinel/test-hgrep". It may
have been moved or copied outside its repository manually, rather than
using "bzr branch".'

(You'll note that I refer to the branch; I'm thinking we should catch
NoRepositoryPresent and throw a customized message)

Aaron
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On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 13:08 +0000, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>
> It would be nice if the message didn't imply that copying or moving
> branches manually was *always* bad. (Moving or copying manually
> *inside* the repo is encouraged.)

FWIW I dont tend to do or encourage this because it requires memorising
ones repo boundaries.

> 'This branch has no repository: "/Users/jameinel/test-hgrep". It may
> have been moved or copied outside its repository manually, rather than
> using "bzr branch".'

I like this message.

> (You'll note that I refer to the branch; I'm thinking we should catch
> NoRepositoryPresent and throw a customized message)

Yes, that sounds good to me.

-Rob

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Marking this confirmed, to reverse the auto-expire bot marking it invalid. I think it hasn't been worked on simply because everyone has been busy with other things.

I'd like to draw again the attention to this simple modification that could smooth the experience of users (scp is quite attractive in certain occasions, like when one is bitten by bug #123475).

Still an issue. Had to move a bzr repo to re-organize a large directory. Now it doesn't work. I have no clue how to get it working again. Utterly confusing. Google knows nothing at all about this.