'bzr: ERROR: Not a branch' on existing local branch. Can I repair it?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Stevens, Ian wrote:
>>> I just tried that and get the same error with the same output in the
>>> log.  Writing to branch-name doesn't have any effect as you would
>>> expect.
>> So you were able to create a 'format' file, which has the right
>> contents? (Your later comment leads me to wonder if you ended up with
> an
>> empty file here).
> 
> I copied the format file from another working branch.  It has the
> following contents:
> 
>     Bazaar-NG branch format 5
> 
>> If it is a shared drive, do you know if it might be a '/tmp' drive?
> 
> It's my home directory, so hopefully not.  :)
> 
>> Can you check .bzr\ for files? You should have 'branch-format' and
>> README. 
> 
> I only have branch, checkout and repository in the .bzr dir.  I tried
> copying branch-format from a working branch and now get the following
> error:
> 
> bzr: ERROR: No WorkingTree exists for
> file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/istevens/dev/ticker/trunk/.bzr/che
> ckout/.
> 
> Here are the contents of the log:
> 
> bzr arguments: [u'diff']
> looking for plugins in c:\Program
> Files\Bazaar\lib\library.zip\bzrlib\plugins
> looking for plugins in C:/Documents and Settings/istevens/Application
> Data/bazaar/2.0/plugins
> Looking for plugins in 'c:\\Program
> Files\\Bazaar\\lib\\library.zip\\bzrlib\\plugins'
> Names in archive: ['__init__.pyc', 'launchpad/__init__.pyc',
> 'launchpad/lp_registration.pyc', 'launchpad/test_register.pyc']
> Load plugin launchpad from zip 'c:\\Program
> Files\\Bazaar\\lib\\library.zip\\bzrlib\\plugins'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "bzrlib\commands.pyc", line 650, in run_bzr_catch_errors
>   File "bzrlib\commands.pyc", line 612, in run_bzr
>   File "bzrlib\commands.pyc", line 304, in run_argv_aliases
>   File "bzrlib\commands.pyc", line 622, in ignore_pipe
>   File "bzrlib\builtins.pyc", line 1235, in run
>   File "bzrlib\builtins.pyc", line 85, in internal_tree_files
>   File "bzrlib\workingtree.pyc", line 350, in open_containing
>   File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyc", line 1015, in open_workingtree
>   File "bzrlib\workingtree.pyc", line 1912, in find_format
> NoWorkingTree: No WorkingTree exists for
> file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/istevens/dev/ticker/trunk/.bzr/che
> ckout/.
> return code 3
> 
> The contents of branch-format are as follows:
> 
>     Bazaar-NG meta directory, format 1
> 
> Ian.

Well, basically all of your format files got nuked. *I* don't know why
that would have happened.

But now you need to add ".bzr/checkout/format". You might also want to
look at ".bzr/repository/format" and make sure it is okay.

John
=:->

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