Why won't my files push to my SFTP server?

Question

I'm having trouble pushing my branch to an SFTP server. I'm following the instructions here.

When I push the branch, everything seems to complete successfully. I get the message "Created new branch.", and if I do "bzr push" again, it says "No new revisions to push." But when I ssh to the SFTP server to look at the directory I put my branch in, only the .bzr directory is there. None of my files are there. Does anyone have any idea why this might be?

Answer 1

My problem was resolved on Launchpad. Here are some of the answers (taken from the Launchpad question):

From bzr help push:

Description:

The target branch will not have its working tree populated because this is both expensive, and is not supported on remote file systems.

Some smart servers or protocols may put the working tree in place in the future.

You might want to follow this howto to deploy a complete bzr-loggerhead remote server

Also, and just if you need a working tree in your sftp server you can run bzr update as shown in working-tree's help:

If you want to have a working tree on a remote machine that you push to you can either run bzr update in the remote branch after each push, or use some other method to update the tree during the push. There is an rspush plugin that will update the working tree using rsync as well as doing a push. There is also a push-and-update plugin that automates running bzr update via SSH after each push.

Have a look here if your SFTP server does not allow installing bzr or hooks into the repository. For web development, I am using sshfs to keep the public version updated.

For mounting, you will want to use the options -o idmap=user,workaround=rename to map the remote user to yourself, and work around an issue with renaming onto an existing file in the SFTP protocol.

To sum it up into commands

Prequesites

sudo apt-get install fuse-utils sshfs

Mount dir

mkdir ~/sftp.my-site.org

Mounting

sshfs [email protected]: ~/sftp.my-site.org -o idmap=user,workaround=rename

Run update

cd ~/sftp.my-site.org; bzr update

Notes

• Replace "sftp-username" with your user name at the SFTP server.
• Replace "sftp.my-site.org" with the SFTP server name.
• Make sure to include the trailing colon : after the server name if using the home directory there.