Weird bug

[Matt Nordhoff]

Nicholas Allen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I push my project to a backup medium (a truecrypt FAT file system on a
> flash disk) every now and then. This has been working perfectly for a
> long time. I just tried pushing again now and got this error:
> 
> Using saved location: /media/truecrypt1/pace/
> Conflict adding file pace/todo.  Moved existing file to pace/TODO.moved.
> Conflict adding file pace_tests/TODO.  Moved existing file to
> pace_tests/todo.moved.
> bzr: ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> 
> I have 2 files called "TODO" which I just edited, committed and then
> pushed. When I tried to push I got the above error message. Despite what
> Bazaar said there was no "todo.moved" file anywhere. But I also don't
> understand why there should be a conflict anyway. I have never done
> anything but push to this medium so they can't have diverged in any way
> whatsoever.
> 
> Not only should the error not happen but the message says it did
> something that it definitely did not (i.e todo.moved exists nowhere).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nick

Not that this really helps, but..

If you're just using the disk as a backup medium, you don't need a
working tree at all. It's just a waste of space. You can run "bzr
remove-tree /media/truecrypt1/pace/" to remove it.

That should prevent weird conflicts like this too.
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