attempt to commit added files fails. added file change not recognized deep in source tree

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Wed Aug 9 21:39:10 BST 2006


Terrence Brannon wrote:
> I downloaded the primary Windows 0.82 Native Installer (the
> alternative one does not seem to put bzr on your path, so I
> de-installed and used the primary one).  Anyway, I went to the
> directory c:\Perl and typed
> bzr init
> and then
> bzr add
> 
> which then added a huge tree of files. But, I could not then type
> bzr commit -m 'initial commit'
> 
> to commit them.
> 
> so I made a small change to one file down in the tree and then tried
> 
> bzr commit -m 'small change'
> 
> and it did not find the change - I had to manually specify it's
> location down in the tree of files.


Your first problem is that Windows Command shell does not support ' as a
quote character. You have to use:

bzr commit -m "small change"

The second problem is fixed in bzr-0.9rc1. Which is that bzr should
complain that "'small" and "change'" are not versioned files.

John
=:->


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