Errors branching from remote with bzr 0.0.6+20050828-0

[Martin Pool]

On 8/29/05, Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com> wrote:
> I was experimenting with bzr for the first time in a while, and got an
> error trying to do a branch from a remote repo. I had just done an init,
> a couple commits, and then rsync'd the entire directory to my web server.
> 
> kevins at aria:~/work/SpaceMonkeys$ bzr branch
> http://fxa.org/bzr/SpaceMonkeys/official verify
> bzr: ERROR: label too long
>    at /usr/lib/python2.4/encodings/idna.py line 72, in ToASCII()
>    see ~/.bzr.log for debug information

That's a strange error.  If you still have the traceback could you post it?

> Later, I realized that this happened because my rsync script wasn't
> copying the hidden .bzr directory. After I fixed that and re-pushed, the
> branch command worked fine.
> 
> But before I figured that out, I tried to branch from bzr itself, as
> shown in the wiki tutorial, to see if it was a problem with my repo. I
> got this error:
> 
> kevins at aria:~/work/bzr$ bzr branch http://bazaar-ng.org/bzr/main ./bzr-main
> preparing to copy
>         bzr: ERROR: 'mbp at sourcefrog.net-20050310033826-e913091c03649b1c'
>    at /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/remotebranch.py line 182,
> in __getitem__()
>    see ~/.bzr.log for debug information

I think this was a bug in bzr.dev which has since been fixed.

> Ah, which I now see is because that directory doesn't exist on
> bazaar-ng.org. Perhaps someone could update the tutorial to point to
> whichever bzr repo would be most appropriate.

Fixed now, thanks.  Please feel free to edit the tutorial on the wiki
if anything is unclear or insufficient.

-- 
Martin