ghost revs/inconsistent parents/missing revs in bzr check

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at vernstok.nl
Tue Apr 7 14:15:23 BST 2009


Parth Malwankar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just ran "bzr check" on a branch I am using. This
> gave the following numbers.
>
>   1497 revisions
>   3260 file-ids
>   7318 unique file texts
> 942118 repeated file texts
>      0 unreferenced text versions
>    122 ghost revisions
>    122 revisions missing parents in ancestry
>     55 inconsistent parents
>
> If I understand "bzr check help" correctly, I need
> not worry about the first 5.
>
> Should I be concerned about the last 3?
>
> What are ghost revisions? I couldn't find any info on
> it (might have missed it).
>
> I am using bzr 1.13 (format 1.9-rich-root).
>
Ghost revisions are revisions to which references exist, but which don't
actually exist in your repository. They are usually created by imports
from baz or Subversion and generally shouldn't be a problem, unless of
course you expected to have all revisions in your repository.

Cheers,

Jelmer



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