bazaar crash

[Martin Pool]

On 7/30/07, Bernhard Mulder <bwmulder at pacbell.net> wrote:
> > Is this, as the path suggests, a checkout of a svn repository?
>
> Yes, this is a checkout of the gcc source tree (Gnu C Compiler). For some
> reason, an update behind company firewalls does not seem to work, so I
> wanted to re-create the gcc source tree by creating a dumpfile.
>
> Maybe I am missing something, but with subversion you can archive your
> repository as a revision dump, and you can re-create the repository out of
> the dump file. You can also use incremental dumps to send changes via email,
> and you can apply these dumps to make changes to the repository (assuming
> that the repository has not changed, and ignoring the lack of merge support
> of subversion relative to bazaar).
>
> The current backup procedure I use for another subversion repository is to
> create one incremental dump for each revision, using some fairly simple
> scripts. My attempts to do something similar for bazaar so far have failed.
>
> It might be that, coming from subversion, I have some wrong idea what
> 'bundle-revisions' is thought for. Maybe I should create an empty bzr
> repository with 'bzr init' and specify this as "BASE" to get the effect I
> want? The idea is that once I have the dump file, I can then merge it into
> ANY repository which was created with 'bzr init'

I filed a bug for the exception you reported.

Til it's fixed bundling relative to a separate empty branch is
probably a good way to go.

-- 
Martin