resume a branching

[Martin Pool]

On 19 September 2011 18:54, Abdul Quadri <abdlquadri at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have never used bzr before. I was running this set of commands to get a
> software.
>
> hg clone http://hg.assembla.com/MadButterfly
> bzr branch lp:~inkscape-pybind/inkscape/pybind inkscape-pybind
> cd inkscape-pybind
> ./configure —with-python
> make
> set PYTHONPATH=$PWD/../MadButterfly/pyink
> export PYTHONPATH
> ./src/inkscape
>
>  I guess the second line is the bzr part of the whole thing. I ran the
> command and the download started but unfortunately my network access
> was interrupted. Trying again I get this error
>> bzr branch lp:~inkscape-pybind/inkscape/pybind inkscape-pybind
> You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
> write to Launchpad or access private data.  See "bzr help launchpad-login".
> bzr: ERROR: Target directory "inkscape-pybind" already exists.
> I think the last line is what I should be worried about. Please how do I
> proceed?

Hi,

You should be able to do

cd inkscape-pybind
bzr pull lp:~inkscape-pybind/inkscape/pybind

It would be better if repeating the branch command just handled this
more elegantly and/or if bzr paused and retried the failed operations.
(There are bugs; we'll fix them.)

m