problems with an arch-converted repo under cygwin

[John Arbash Meinel]

Baz wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm fairly new to bzr, and I'm trying to do this under cygwin:
> $ bzr get http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/bzr/planet/devel/trunk/ planet
> 
>

...

> I thought I should ping the list since this is happening in the RC.
> Folk on other platforms seem to have no trouble with the repo ( see eg
> http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2006/04/20/Planet-Intertwingly ), but
> I'll try this out on a mac later.
> 
> I don't have any of the 'optional' libraries installed here
> (cElementTree, paramiko, etc).
> 
> Any ideas? Am I just being thick?
> 
> Cheers,
> Baz


The issue is that arch used characters like "<>" which are illegal in
paths on windows. So this actually effects both win32 and cygwin.

I had hacked around it a while ago. And Martin merged my changes into
the newly released 'knit' format, which will actually be the default
format in 0.8.

So you can use them, but only if you use the 'knit' format for your
local tree. Are you using the released 0.7, or one of the development
copies? In general, the solution isn't really easy, but we can walk you
through a workaround.

John
=:->

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