Error reported with bzr check on a shared repository

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Jurgen Defurne wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How can I handle this ?
> 
> $ bzr check --repo
> 
> bzr: ERROR: Unknown bzrdir format:
> '8\x14l\xe9+{vy\xe2\x035/\x94|\x8a\xacp\x92D\x1d\xeeYQ_\xc6\xf11\xe1X\x81\xd3\x17\xac\x07\x16'
> 
> I have a shared repository with a lot of branches inside. I do not seem to have any problems with the branches I use most.
> 
> What do you recommend ? Push all accessible branches to a different shared repository and then replace the old one with the new one ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jurgen
> 
> 

This is rather serious. Something has massively corrupted the file
.bzr/branch-format
And inserted random binary data...

I honestly don't know what happened here, but it seems rather strange.
If you aren't having any other problems, then likely you have just one
branch somewhere which is broken with a bogus format file. Which may be
safe to just delete. (I would create a backup copy before doing any
deleting, though.)

John
=:->

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