[PATCH] more informative error for bzr add (when parent is unversioned)

[Michael Ellerman]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:31, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 14:08 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:32, Robert Collins wrote:
> > > I do wonder what happens if you cd to / and bzr add usr/bin though.
> >
> > concordia ~$ cd /
> > concordia /$ bzr add usr/bin
> > bzr: ERROR: /usr/bin is not in a branch
> >   at /home/michael/src/bzr/mine/bzrlib/branch.py line 131, in
> > find_branch_root()
> >   see ~/.bzr.log for debug information
> >
> > But that's not quite you meant is it? :D
>
> Actually, its *exactly* what I meant :). Its an add of a file or dir in
> an unversioned parent :). And it gets a sucky error message.

Not really, that error's coming from the fact that / isn't versioned - I don't 
think there's anything my patch can do about that.

cheers

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