unable to branch github repo containing submodules

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On 03/22/10 11:09, Parth Malwankar wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Jelmer Vernooij<jelmer at samba.org>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi Parth,
>>
>> On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 17:38 +0530, Parth Malwankar wrote:
>>      
>>> I am trying to checkout a github repo that seems to
>>> contain submodules. Is this supported by bzr-git? I get
>>> an error message saying I need to upgrade my repo format.
>>> Should I be doing something differently?
>>>        
>> bzr-git supports submodules, but it maps (and has to map them) to nested
>> trees in Bazaar. Unfortunately, Bazaar only has some limited support for
>> nested trees in its API and some experimental file formats that support
>> it.
>>
>>      
>>> I am using bzr 2.1 and bzr-git 0.4.3 on ubuntu 9.10.
>>>
>>> [parrot]% bzr branch git://github.com/fperrad/lua.git lua
>>> - fetching revisions 770/1047
>>> bzr: ERROR: The repository you are fetching from contains submodules.
>>> To continue, upgrade your Bazaar repository to a format that supports
>>> nested trees, such as 'development-subtree'.
>>> [parrot]%
>>>        
>> You can only check out this Github repo if you upgrade the local Bazaar
>> branch to a format that supports nested trees. The only formats that
>> support nested trees at the moment are all experimental - only use this
>> for testing, not for any production code. These formats may change
>> without notice, eat your cat and set your vacuum cleaner on fire.
>>
>>      
>
>    
>> If you still would like to try with such a format, run something like
>> this:
>>
>>   $ bzr init --development-subtree lua
>>   $ bzr pull -d lua git://github.com/fperrad/lua.git
>>
>>      
> I tried the above but it crashed (traced below). I don't plan to
> use the above branch for production so its not really a
> problem. If you would like me to file a bug for the crash please
> let me know.
>    
As mentioned above, the nested tree support is incomplete.

Alternatively you can try:

$ bzr init-repo --development-subtree lua
$ bzr branch git://github.com/fperrad/lua.git lua/trunk

Cheers,

Jelmer