Problem trying to specify a revision number for bzr-externals

Patrick van der Velde petrikvandervelde at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 21:05:31 BST 2010


Hi All

I'm trying to add an externals reference to my repository. It all
works fine when I don't have a revision specifier but as soon as I add
one I get a bzr internal error. The documentation for externals states
that revision specifiers are legal. Any ideas on what is wrong? My
command line is:

bzr externals-add 'D:\repository\dev\lib\caliburn' lib/caliburn --revision 1

And then the error is:

bzr: ERROR: exceptions.TypeError: sequence item 4: expected string or
Unicode, list found

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 853, in exception_to_return_code
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 1055, in run_bzr
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 661, in run_argv_aliases
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 665, in run_direct
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 122, in run_simple
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 156, in _do_with_cleanups
  File "C:/Program Files (x86)/Bazaar/plugins\externals\commands.py",
line 79, in run
TypeError: sequence item 4: expected string or Unicode, list found

bzr 2.1.1 on python 2.5.4 (Windows-Vista-6.1.7600)
arguments: ['C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Bazaar\\bzr.exe',
'externals-add', 'D:\\repository\\dev\\lib\\caliburn', 'lib/caliburn',
'--revision', '1']
encoding: 'cp1252', fsenc: 'mbcs', lang: None
plugins:
  bookmarks            C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\bookmarks [unknown]
  bzrtools             C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\bzrtools [2.1.0]
  explorer             C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\explorer [1.0.1]
  externals            C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\externals [1.3.0]
  launchpad            C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\launchpad [2.1.1]
  netrc_credential_store C:\Program Files
(x86)\Bazaar\plugins\netrc_credential_store [2.1.1]
  news_merge           C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\news_merge [2.1.1]
  qbzr                 C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\qbzr [0.18.4]
  rebase               C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\rebase [0.5.5]
  svn                  C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\svn [1.0.2]
  upload               C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\upload [1.0.0dev]
  xmloutput            C:\Program Files (x86)\Bazaar\plugins\xmloutput
[0.8.7.dev]

*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error.  This probably indicates a
    bug in Bazaar.  You can help us fix it by filing a bug report at
        https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
    including this traceback and a description of the problem.

Thanks

Patrick



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