The bug has been reported. Thanks for the feedback guys, if I get the time this weekend I might look into implementing a workaround for it. - Michael <div>On 2/7/07, Martin Pool <<a href="mailto:mbp@canonical.com">mbp@canonical.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> [Incidentally I think it's a good idea to cc people who post questions for the first time (or maybe at all) - they might not be subscribed. The list moderates new posters but they do get through.] On  7 Feb 2007, Alexander Belchenko < <a href="mailto:bialix@ukr.net">bialix@ukr.net</a>> wrote: > Michael Reiland пишет: > > I'm trying to get bazaar working over an ftp connection.  All machines will > > be running win2k or newer. > > > > I've configured everything, created a test repository on the remote > > machine, > > checked out said repository on my local machine. > > > > When I try to commit it I get the following error: > > bzr: ERROR: Generic path error: '/bzr_test/.bzr/branch/revision-history': > > could not store: 550 /bzr_test/.bzr/branch/revision-history: Cannot > > create a > > file when that file already exists > > Unfortunately bzr is broken in this respect: > if you have FTP server on top of Windows filesystem, it's unable to rename file > if there is already exists file with the same name. It's purely limitation > of underlying windows filesystem, not bzr itself. Well, it is a limit we should work around.  For the current format it is ok for us to delete the file before renaming it if the server or filesystem requires that.  In fact I thought that sftp always requires this... > This bug also reproduced by selftest running on Windows. On the local filesystem, or just against the file server. > Unfortunately all core developers working on Linux, and assume that FTP servers > always running on Linux machines too, where this problem simply does not > exists. I think you count as a core dev too! We do have Transport decorators that should allow us to simulate this on any platform. > Please, file the bug report about this problem. Yes please do -- <a href="http://launchpad.net/bzr">http://launchpad.net/bzr</a> -- Martin </blockquote></div>