strange permission denied erorr

[Maritza Mendez]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:

> Maritza Mendez пишет:
> ...
>
>  The files look good, but I have not attempted to do any work on the
>> checkout, because...
>>  In explorer, the lower status pane shows the following error:
>>  Permission denied: "D:/SourceControl/bzrEval/dev_c/.bzr/branch-format":
>> [Errno 13] Permission denied
>>  The path *would be* the correct path on the WinXP machine hosting the
>> branch from which the checkout on *this* Win7 machine is located.
>>
>
> This problem has the same root as
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-explorer/+bug/550989
>
> The message is harmless, but ugly.
>
> I'm planning to disable comparing with parent branch for lightweight
> checkouts, because it's not safe enough. Maybe allow it only for colo:
> workspaces.
>
>  As you would guess from the lack of problems in .bzr.log, I have no
>> problem doing
>>  bzr checkout --lightweight
>> "\\maritza_winxp_pc\D:\SourceControl\bzrEval\dev_c
>> <file://maritza_winxp_pcd:/SourceControl/bzrEval/dev_c>" dev_co2
>>
>
> Converting to heavy checkout (or bound branch) will fix the "problem".
>


That makes sense, and I agree that its much better to see no error.  Even if
it is harmless, it does not look harmless and it will certainly generate a
lot of "internal support" questions for me.  :)

fwiw... The only way we would use checkouts in our environment would be
lightweight.  Heavy checkouts are not particularly advantageous in our
peculiar workflow.

thanks
~M
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