Cygwin-bug#20050820T1947: [serious] IndexError list index out of range

[Martin Pool]

On 8/23/05, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net> wrote:
> | > Version: 0.0.6
> | >
> | > I get this error under Cygwin. Please take a look.
> | >
> | > bzr: error: unknown command 'commint'
> |
> | You just misspelled "commit", there are a couple other bugs that make it
> | non-obvious. But that is the root of the problem.
> |
> | (The weird traceback is because on an exception we log the state at the
> | time of the error. I really don't know why that code is failing, since
> | it seems to be giving a line number error.)
> 
> I just wanted confirmation that it is normal behavior to get traceback
> even for cases like this. I would have expected simple:
> 
>    Unknown command: commint

No, it's not the intended behaviour.  There was a bug in reporting the
error, which is why it looks much worse than it should.

In the current development tree you just get:

% ./bzr commitin
bzr: ERROR: unknown command 'commitin'

I think I will do a point release to fix this for Cygwin.

-- 
Martin