pack format dogfooding - action required - was Re: Problems with bzr.dev tonight

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Tue Oct 16 11:04:42 BST 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 17:54 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> > Because only a handful of people are likely to be affected by this,
> > and not on revisions they originated, I'm going to skip making an
> > automatic fix and suggest migrating to a new unaffected repository
> > instead.
> 
> That sounds reasonable to me.
> 
> > Basically what you should do is:
> > 
> >  make a backup :-)
> >  move your bzr repository away
> >  make a new bzr repository
> >  branch across any branches of your own that you want to keep
> > 
> > if you have any questions just ask here or on irc.
> 
> Robert mentioned running reconcile on IRC as well.

Only if you are dogfooding packs.

>  Is the order meant to
> be this?
> 
>   cd new-repo
>   bzr init-repo
>   bzr branch http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev/
>   cd bzr.dev
>   ./bzr reconcile
>   cd ..
>   create other branches

Yes.

> Can we run reconcile on the master copy of bzr.dev on our central
> server?

Yes, we should do that soon; however we should upgrade bzr there too
first.

>  If so, does one still need to run reconcile locally if branching
> from it after that's done?

Only if 'bzr check' complains.

-Rob

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