I've helped a number of people through this confusion in the last few days, I think Something Should Be Done.
I'm not sure I agree with the suggested fixes, though. I think the error message should talk about bind and unbind -- "if you have access to the branch via a url that supports writing such as sftp or bzr+ssh, try bzr bind <that url>, or if you do not wish your commits to go to another branch, type "bzr unbind". See bzr help checkouts for more."
I've helped a number of people through this confusion in the last few days, I think Something Should Be Done.
I'm not sure I agree with the suggested fixes, though. I think the error message should talk about bind and unbind -- "if you have access to the branch via a url that supports writing such as sftp or bzr+ssh, try bzr bind <that url>, or if you do not wish your commits to go to another branch, type "bzr unbind". See bzr help checkouts for more."
Or something.