Comment 2 for bug 358377

Filed bug 362068 to highlight the problem with the five segments thing.

More generally, I think that you're right -- it does involve too much repetition. I avoid this by having my Bazaar locations.conf configured like this:

[/home/jml/src]
public_branch = lp:~jml
public_branch:policy = appendpath
push_location = lp:~jml
push_location:policy = appendpath

So that by default, all of my pushes from ~/src/project/branch go to lp:~jml/project/branch. Bazaar should definitely have a better solution to this use case though. Whether it's special syntax or better locations.conf management is an open question.