I somehow messed up my project's repo, please help

[André]

>> I think maybe Vincent meant to say "copy .bzr to a new folder and
>> in the new folder do 'bzr revert .'". I've just tried this on one
>> of my .bzr directories and the 'bzr revert .' recreates the files
>> with the contents they had the last time I committed (when the
>> directory was empty bzr thought I had deleted all the files so to
>> revert that it recreated them).
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> That worked now. So, my diff indicates what might have happened,
> although I no longer remember making this attribute change! All the
> files show up with:
>
> (properties changed: -x to +x)
>

The *nix execute attribute (x) may not exist on all places (FAT32 
partitions, zip files, pendrives, ...). As a consequence, when you read 
files from such places, they may be imported/copied/moved with a 
differente attribute value (usually set) than you expected. This is the 
same case for owner and group information.

The tar format preserve date and time stamps, as well as owner 
information. Tar is good for keeping backups because of this (usually 
associated with a good compression format, to save space).