bzrtools: "import" fails on simple archive

[Matthias Rahlf]

Hi,

>> recently John Meinel mentioned the "import" command. This was exactly
>> what I was looking for. But it doesn't work that easy, I'm afraid.
> 
>> $mkdir upstream-1.0.1
>> $touch upstream-1.0.1/README
>> $tar czf upstream-1.0.1.tar.gz upstream-1.0.1
>> $mkdir my-branch
>> $cd my-branch
>> $bzr init
>> $bzr import ../upstream-1.0.1.tar.gz
>> bzr: ERROR: bzrlib.errors.PathNotChild: Path '/' is not a child of path
>> u'/home/user/my-branch'
> 
> I can't reproduce this.  I'm using GNU tar 1.15.91

I'm using GNU tar 1.16 on Debian/Linux (Sid), current bzr.dev and
bzrtools (dev) with Python 2.5

But on the other site, archives created with bsdtar (1.3.1) don't seem
to cause problems.

ci at o, matthias
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