bug report: 'bzr log > out' crashes

[Andrew Voznytsa]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Andrew Voznytsa wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to 'bzr log > out' on WinXP SP2. bzr is executed in working
> >> tree which was created by lightweight checkout from shared repository
> >> hosted on sftp.
> >> 'bzr log' works fine.
>
> This appears to be because it wants to prompt for a password, but you've
> made that impossible by redirecting stdout to a file.
>
> No doubt we can improve the error, but I don't know whether we can
> prevent the failure.
>
Seems that you are right - it does not fail in case of heavy checkout.

In my opinion it should be useful at least to catch this kind of error
and advise to use heavy checkout (until you won't get chance to fix it
properly).

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Best regards,
Andrew Voznytsa