hang branching from shelve-editor (was Re: Splitting diff hunks in ‘shelve’)

[Martin Pool]

2009/9/29 Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au>:
> Andrew Bennetts <andrew.bennetts at canonical.com> writes:
>
>> Just replace bzr+ssh with http.
>
> (With the result of <URL:http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~abentley/bzr/shelve-editor>)
>
>> Or use lp:~abentley/bzr/shelve-editor, which will resolve to the same
>> (assuming you haven't configured a Launchpad account).
>
> Correct assumption, thanks.
>
> I've now tried several times over the past several days, without
> success, to checkout the above branch.

This is a 2a branch so you should be using bzr 1.18.1 or 2.0.

>
> Does it really have over 27 000 revisions? That seems excessive for what
> Aaron describes this work as being, so I'm wondering if my Bazaar is
> correct in reporting it.

No, it has 4616 according to bzr info.  Where does that number come from?

>
> Regardless, my Bazaar is hanging after fetching only a few hundred
> (200–400) of the revisions. I have to send a SIGINT to kill it.
>
> The branch exists, and I can attempt to pull again, but with similar
> results:
>
> =====
> $ bzr pull http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~abentley/bzr/shelve-editor/
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~abentley/bzr/shelve-editor is permanently redirected to /~abentley/bzr/shelve-editor/changes
> [... wait for hours ...]
> ^Cbzr: interrupted
> =====
>
> I had assumed the problem was with my connection to Launchpad's Bazaar
> repositories, but a checkout of ‘lp:bzr-website’ went smoothly and
> quickly.

It would help if you

* tell whether it's hung showing 0 kb/s transferred, or something else
* press C-\ then type 'bt' for a backtrace
* try running the command with
log+http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~abentley/bzr/shelve-editor/ and paste
the output
* type 'bzr info' in the repository you're trying to branch into

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>