assert failure traceback

[Martin Pool]

On  1 Feb 2007, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Tracy Camp wrote:
> 
> >>> 187, in _compare_trees
> >>>     assert kind[0] == kind[1] or None in kind
> >>> AssertionError
> 
> You have changed a file's kind.  e.g. turning a file into a directory, a
> directory into a symlink, a symlink into a file...
> 
> This is not permitted by bzr.
> 
> I'm not interested in trying to fix it, because I haven't been able to
> get approval for a status format that would show kind changes intuitively.

Was the status display format really the only thing that prevents this
being fixed?  If so that's a bit ridiculous.  Any display would be an
improvement; indeed just giving a decent message would do.  (If you
are not interested any more I understand and I'm sorry your patch didn't
get in.)

Since this (kind changes) is something that does actually happen there
is no point saying it's not supported.

-- 
Martin