- fixed misleading note (#644550 ("osc don't branch particular project"))

osc/commandline.py

@@ -2419,11 +2419,16 @@ Please submit there instead, or use --nodevelproject to force direct submission.
             print >>sys.stderr, 'Using existing branch project: %s' % targetprj
 
         devloc = None
-        if not exists and (srcprj is not None and srcprj != args[0] or \
-                           srcprj is None and targetprj != expected):
-            devloc = srcprj or targetprj
-            if not srcprj and 'branches:' in targetprj:
-                devloc = targetprj.split('branches:')[1]
+        if not exists and (srcprj != args[0] or srcpkg != args[1]):
+            try:
+                root = ET.fromstring(''.join(show_attribute_meta(apiurl, args[0], None, None,
+                    conf.config['maintained_update_project_attribute'], False, False)))
+                # this might raise an AttributeError
+                uproject = root.find('attribute').find('value').text
+                print '\nNote: The branch has been created from the configured update project: %s' \
+                    % uproject
+            except (AttributeError, urllib2.HTTPError), e:
+                devloc = srcprj
                 print '\nNote: The branch has been created of a different project,\n' \
                       '              %s,\n' \
                       '      which is the primary location of where development for\n' \
@@ -2447,7 +2452,7 @@ Please submit there instead, or use --nodevelproject to force direct submission.
                       % (apiopt, targetprj, package)
         print_request_list(apiurl, args[0], args[1])
         if devloc:
-            print_request_list(apiurl, devloc, args[1])
+            print_request_list(apiurl, devloc, srcpkg)
 
 
     def do_undelete(self, subcmd, opts, *args):

osc/core.py

@@ -4332,12 +4332,13 @@ def branch_pkg(apiurl, src_project, src_package, nodevelproject=False, rev=None,
     except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
         if not return_existing:
             raise
-        msg = ''.join(e.readlines())
-        msg = msg.split('<summary>')[1]
-        msg = msg.split('</summary>')[0]
-        m = re.match(r"branch target package already exists: (\S+)/(\S+)", msg)
+        root = ET.fromstring(e.read())
+        summary = root.find('summary')
+        if summary is None:
+            raise oscerr.APIError('unexpected response:\n%s' % ET.tostring(root))
+        m = re.match(r"branch target package already exists: (\S+)/(\S+)", summary.text)
         if not m:
-            e.msg += '\n' + msg
+            e.msg += '\n' + summary.text
             raise
         return (True, m.group(1), m.group(2), None, None)