[BUG] Knit code assertion error

[John Arbash Meinel]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 14:18 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> I sent this a few days ago, but my traceback was too long, so I'm 
>> re-sending with a compressed log.
>>
>> Anyway, I wanted to try checking out a Arch converted project on a 
>> Windows machine, and since the only format that supports file id 
>> escaping is knit, I figured I would do the conversion and check it out.
>>
>> But it fails (after about 20 minutes) with the attached traceback & log.
> 
> This is a race condition in the tuned_gzip - a partial read of the last
> 8 bytes of a gzip file will trigger it. its fixed in bzr.dev.
> 
> 
> Rob

I was very happy to agree with you. Except I'm pretty sure I have the
fix, and it is still occurring:

bzr log:

 1642 Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager 2006-04-18
      Fix race condition between end of stream and end of file with
tuned_gzip.

 1643 Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager 2006-04-18
      Fix and test upgrades from bzrdir 6 over SFTP.

 1644 Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager 2006-04-18
      implementation of --reprocess for weave merge

 1645 Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager 2006-04-19
      (mbp) two small cleanups

 1646 Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager 2006-04-19
      Change the default branch format to be metadir. (Robert Collins,
Aaron Ben tley).

 1647 Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager 2006-04-19
      Implement plan_merge for knits

 1648 Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager 2006-04-19
      diff and merge handle binaries safely


$ time bzr branch /srv/bzr/public/mirror-repo/mifar/dev/0.7-jam/
mifar-knit/dev-0.7-jam Backup Inventory created.
Inventory regenerated.
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.AssertionError:
  at /local/01/system/srv/bzr/public/mirrors/bzr.dev/bzrlib/knit.py line
1270
  in _parse_record

real    13m13.879s

John
=:->

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