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Tiefflieger (tiefflieger) wrote on 2009-02-20: Make launchpad's bazaar more intuitive

I'm a programmer myself and familiar with CVS. I was very curious about the possibilities bazaar (or in general, distributed VCS) could give me.
As mentioned in https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-bazaar/+question/61004 , my first steps with bazaar were quite frustrating. There are tons of "mini-tutorial-faq-guide-get-done-in-5-minutes" pages for bazaar out there. But all I wanted to know, is how I can upload my local files (say "/myproject/myfile") to launchpad. "bzr push lp...", as proposed by launchpad, didn't work.
The problem was, I didn't know how to tell my local bazaar to create a local branch.
So please don't make another long long help-page on how to upload files (there probably already is one). Just a fiew lines shown in Detail-view for an empty branch would do just fine. Maybe something like
"To create a local branch called 'peterpaul' in current working directory: bzr branch peterpaul"
"To add all local files to the branch: bzr add"
"To locally save latter: bzr commit"
"To upload the local branch to branch 'peterpan' of project 'yourproject' on launchpad: bzr push lp:yourproject/peterpan"
I don't know if these lines are actually correct, and I'm aware that this is just one of many different ways on how to upload things. But it seems to me, that this would be the main case for most people, and for the others it gives a feeling for how bazaar works. And for further informations, one could contact the launchpad's help, but for these simple things, I don't want to crawl thousand of pages to find out how to do them.

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Additionally, it's very important to me to say the following: I want to thank anybody who helps or has helped launchpad becoming the way it is now: It's really great. Please understand my critic as constructive, often with a wink of an eye ;-) . I do not mean to insult someone or decry something. I know that in most cases, things are like they are for a certain reason, or that I'm the only one who considers them confusing.
I will append this text to many launchpad improvement suggestions. Since launchpad basically serves as a platform for complaining (bugs) or say how everything should be (blueprints), I just thought it would be good to give you a "thank you", too :-)

I'm a programmer myself and familiar with CVS. I was very curious about the possibilities bazaar (or in general, distributed VCS) could give me. 
As mentioned in https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-bazaar/+question/61004 , my first steps with bazaar were quite frustrating. There are tons of "mini-tutorial-faq-guide-get-done-in-5-minutes" pages for bazaar out there. But all I wanted to know, is how I can upload my local files (say "/myproject/myfile") to launchpad. "bzr push lp:...", as proposed by launchpad, didn't work. 
The problem was, I didn't know how to tell my local bazaar to create a local branch.
So please don't make another long long help-page on how to upload files (there probably already is one). Just a fiew lines shown in Detail-view for an empty branch would do just fine. Maybe something like
"To create a local branch called 'peterpaul' in current working directory: bzr branch peterpaul"
"To add all local files to the branch: bzr add"
"To locally save latter: bzr commit"
"To upload the local branch to branch 'peterpan' of project 'yourproject' on launchpad: bzr push lp:yourproject/peterpan"
I don't know if these lines are actually correct, and I'm aware that this is just one of many different ways on how to upload things. But it seems to me, that this would be the main case for most people, and for the others it gives a feeling for how bazaar works. And for further informations, one could contact the launchpad's help, but for these simple things, I don't want to crawl thousand of pages to find out how to do them.