Error: Invalid cross-device link

[Martin Pool]

On 15 June 2010 10:30, Rahul Nabar <rpnabar at gmail.com> wrote:
> I get an error when I try to issue a command:
>
> bzr revert /var/www/html/euclid_logs.html
> bzr: ERROR: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link
>
> bzr log /var/www/html/euclid_logs.html
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> revno: 4
> committer: root <root at euclid.che.wisc.edu>
> branch nick:
> timestamp: Mon 2010-06-14 18:49:32 -0500
> message:
>  Works
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Other bzr commands do work fine.
>
> /var is indeed mounted on a different physical device but that's all
> right I guess?

No, Bazaar doesn't support having a single tree that spans multiple
filesystems, this is
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/411068>.

Unless you really want one history for the whole machine maybe you
actually should bzr init /var/www/html or /var/www

-- 
Martin