Inconvenient behaviour difference between bazaar on linux and windows(MinGW/Msys)

[Michael Gliwinski]

On Friday 06 Apr 2012 09:14:24 David Ingamells wrote:
> I have a branch in a filesystem that is shared between ubuntu (NFS
> mount) and windows machines (CIFS/Samba mount).
> The repository was created on the ubuntu machine, but when I go to the
> windows machine and call (e.g.) 'bzr revno' I get an error:
> 
>     bzr: ERROR: Invalid url supplied to transport:
>     "file:///data/id/CmsRoot/repos/MScms/Admin/": Win32 file urls start
>     with file:///x:/, where x is a valid drive letter
...
> This may well be because the standard pre-built windows Bazaar installer
> has been used, but the windows terminal is using MinGW and Msys; bzr was
> called from MSys using 'cmd'.
...

I think I've seen this while trying to operate on a branch created on ubuntu 
from the windows command prompt.  It could have something to do with how paths 
are stored in the branch/tree configs and how they are interpreted at runtime 
on two different OSs.

You can check that by running bzr from plain windows cmd interpreter.

You *may* be able to work something out by using cygwin and installing cygwin 
version of python and bazaar.  Possibly using msys instead of cygwin would 
work but you'd have to install msys version of python and build bazaar 
yourself.


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