lost commits in our repo!

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 06:24:50PM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
>> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>> If you would like to forbid Bazaar from ever doing these replace
>>> operations, set the ``append_revisions_only`` setting to True for the
>>> repository you're
>>> pushing to.

>> I added "append_revisions_only = True" to this branch's  
>> .bzr/branch/branch.conf, and now when I try to down-thread to the 
>> bottom thread I get this error:

>> 0 seb at water>  bzr show-loom
>> =>bdm-client-cli
>>   cleanups
>>   trunk
>> 0 seb at water>  bzr down-thread
>> All changes applied successfully.
>> bzr: ERROR: Operation denied because it would change the main history,  
>> which is not permitted by the append_revisions_only setting on branch  
>> "/home/seb/work/bioserve/bzr/dev/".

> The down-thread seems to have moved to the next thread down despite the  
> error message.  I threw caution to the wind and moved down to the bottom  
> thread "trunk", then ran "bzr rebase" and got this traceback:  
> <http://pastebin.ca/1211059>

> Maybe the result of my earlier indiscretion of going ahead with what i  
> wanted to do despite the "down-thread" error...

This is caused by an outdated version of bzr-rebase. You probably want
0.4.

Cheers,

Jelmer