bazaar and ftp?

[Michael Reiland]

The bug has been reported.

Thanks for the feedback guys, if I get the time this weekend I might look
into implementing a workaround for it.

- Michael

On 2/7/07, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> [Incidentally I think it's a good idea to cc people who post questions
> for the first time (or maybe at all) - they might not be subscribed.
> The list moderates new posters but they do get through.]
>
> On  7 Feb 2007, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> > Michael Reiland пишет:
> > > I'm trying to get bazaar working over an ftp connection.  All machines
> will
> > > be running win2k or newer.
> > >
> > > I've configured everything, created a test repository on the remote
> > > machine,
> > > checked out said repository on my local machine.
> > >
> > > When I try to commit it I get the following error:
> > > bzr: ERROR: Generic path error:
> '/bzr_test/.bzr/branch/revision-history':
> > > could not store: 550 /bzr_test/.bzr/branch/revision-history: Cannot
> > > create a
> > > file when that file already exists
> >
> > Unfortunately bzr is broken in this respect:
> > if you have FTP server on top of Windows filesystem, it's unable to
> rename file
> > if there is already exists file with the same name. It's purely
> limitation
> > of underlying windows filesystem, not bzr itself.
>
> Well, it is a limit we should work around.  For the current format it is
> ok for us to delete the file before renaming it if the server or
> filesystem requires that.  In fact I thought that sftp always requires
> this...
>
> > This bug also reproduced by selftest running on Windows.
>
> On the local filesystem, or just against the file server.
>
> > Unfortunately all core developers working on Linux, and assume that FTP
> servers
> > always running on Linux machines too, where this problem simply does not
> > exists.
>
> I think you count as a core dev too!
>
> We do have Transport decorators that should allow us to simulate this on
> any platform.
>
> > Please, file the bug report about this problem.
>
> Yes please do -- http://launchpad.net/bzr
>
> --
> Martin
>
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