No WorkingTree exists after branching

[Xue Fuqiao]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote:

Hi Vincent,

>     > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:
>     >>> Maybe the culprit isn't the plugins.  I spent many hours redoing the
>     >>> original procedure several times without changing the
>     >>> Bazaar/Python/OS version.  Surprisingly, sometimes there's a
>     >>> WorkingTree, sometimes not.  Looks like a heisenbug...  Anyway, I
>     >>> found that if there is no WorkingTree, the first ‘bzr branch’
>     >>> operation in a new repository will take more time.
>     >>
>     >> Did you try comparing the .bzr.log records for the successful and
>     >> unsuccessful operations?
>
>     > Yes, but I saw nothing abnormal.
>
> You can check 'bzr config debug_flags' and add 'hpss' if it's not there
> to enable more debug output related to the smart server (which bzr+ssh
> uses).

I'll try, thank you.

>     >> Also, did you try with --no-plugins several times, and if so, are you
>     >> saying that this, too, sometimes creates a tree and sometimes doesn't?
>     >> (If --no-plugins is consistent, then you could have an inconsistently
>     >> buggy plugin.)
>
>     > No.  The first ‘bzr branch’ takes too much time (2-5 hours on my
>     > machine),
>
> Don't remove the repository, that's where the revisions you spend 2-5
> hours to acquire are stored.
>
> Instead, use 'bzr info' in the shared repository to check that it's
> properly configured before 'bzr branch' and after.

But you didn't use ‘bzr branch’ in the following procedure.  Am I
missing something?

> I.e.:
>
> $ bzr init-repo emacs
> Shared repository with trees (format: 2a)
> Location:
>   shared repository: emacs
> vila:~/tmp :) $ cd emacs
> vila:~/tmp/emacs :) $ bzr info
> Shared repository with trees (format: 2a)
> Location:
>   shared repository: .
>
> Above, bzr said twice that the repository will create a working tree
> ("with trees").

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