2.4.0 Cygwin - exceptions.OverflowError: can't convert negative value delta.py line 127,

[Martin Packman]

On 21 September 2011 17:11, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net> wrote:
>
> The following was reported in Cygwin mailing list for the 2.4.0. Other
> caused this. Do you know if the 2.4.1 contains this fix so that it could be
> packaged ASAP?

This looks like bug 706957 which still needs fixing.

> bzrlib._dirstate_helpers_pyx._pack_stat
> (bzrlib/_dirstate_helpers_pyx.c:5547)
> OverflowError: can't convert negative value to unsigned long

Either a timestamp or file size that doesn't fit in four bytes,
generally the workaround is just to touch the problem file so it gets
a sensible mtime.

> There is no issue with bzr 2.3.1-1.  Also, I have checked out the bzr
> 2.4.0 source and built it myself ("make extensions"), and this works
> just fine as well.

Nothing around this problem should have changed between 2.3 and 2.4 -
but if you didn't test on the same branch, or touched any of the files
in between, that may have made the problem go away.

Martin