Pushing from 2a repository to Launchpad fails

[Russel Winder]

Aaron,

Thanks for chipping in, but I afraid I am going to be Mr Grumpy . . . 

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 11:12 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Russel Winder wrote:
> > Nonetheless, one expects pushing to work since the idea is that the
> > format of the local branch only has to be processed by the local version
> > of Bazaar:
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> 2a is a rich-root format.  The rich-root formats store more data.  It's
> impossible to store this extra data in a 1.9 branch such as
> lp:scons-latex, because 1.9 is not a rich-root format.  It would be
> possible to push to a 1.9-rich-root branch.

It hadn't struck me that this was the case, though I think I sort of
probably knew, but only in the background.  It is good to get this issue
out explicitly.

The problem is Launchpad -- I cannot see a button that allows me to "bzr
upgrade --2a" on a branch stored on Launchpad.  This therefore, at a
stroke, renders Launchpad useless to me.  This is a bit tragic as I have
to date been a very loud marketer of Launchpad amongst all the people
who are stuck with Subversion or have unwisely shown a tendency to
prefer Git or Mercurial over Bazaar.

Not even "bzr push --overwrite" works, which is getting me a bit riled.

I guess I am going to have to remove all branches and recreate from
scratch so as to try and get 2a format branches.  Hummm... I guess I am
assuming Launchpad is running a Bazaar that support 2a format.  This
might get depressing :-(

> Starting with 2a, all new formats are rich-root only, so that once
> everyone switches over, there will be no more problems like the one you
> are experiencing.

Indeed, but just at the moment, I am in total control of all branches
except the ones on Launchpad :-((

I'll go do some Qi Gong.


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