<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1>Hi,<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>I have been using Bazaar successfully on Windows 7 for a bit over a year. When I try to branch a project on Launchpad, I get output like this:<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>2012-01-25 11:17:43.20 D:\Develop\bzrhooks>bzr branch lp:bzr-text-checker<o:p></o:p>You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to<o:p></o:p>write to Launchpad or access private data. See "bzr help launchpad-login".<o:p></o:p>bzr: ERROR: short readline in the readvfile hunk: 'Bazaar pack format 1 (introduced in 0.18)\r'<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>2012-01-25 11:18:09.46 D:\Develop\bzrhooks>cd bzr-text-checker<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>2012-01-25 11:18:15.14 D:\Develop\bzrhooks\bzr-text-checker>bzr qlog<o:p></o:p>bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "".<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>2012-01-25 11:18:17.79 D:\Develop\bzrhooks\bzr-text-checker>dir<o:p></o:p> Volume in drive D is data<o:p></o:p> Volume Serial Number is 2A65-4FB8<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p> Directory of D:\Develop\bzrhooks\bzr-text-checker<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>2012-01-25 11:18 <DIR> .<o:p></o:p>2012-01-25 11:18 <DIR> ..<o:p></o:p> 0 File(s) 0 bytes<o:p></o:p> 2 Dir(s) 101,856,608,256 bytes free<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>This used to work. It is, for example, how I installed the bookmarks plugin when I set up Bazaar in the first place.<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>I think it has to do, somehow, with something I did last week. I already had Bazaar installed from the Windows installer … I believe 2.2.1. Last week though I wanted to do a trial conversion of one of my branches to mercurial using their convert plugin, and I needed to be using the Python version of Bazaar in order to do that. So, without uninstalling the Windows build of Bazaar I already had installed, I installed Python, pywin32, and Python edition of Bazaar (as well as the Python version of mercurial, although I don’t think that’s relevant here). In fact I installed and uninstalled all of these things several times because I don’t really understand the Python ecosystem and I had mismatches between the Python version and these other programs, as well as bitness (32 vs 64) issues.<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>I didn’t ever get my convert working and I decided to try again on one of my *nix systems later. I uninstalled everything … all Python and everything that depended on Python. I left my Windows Bazaar install intact though and it does work for most operations. When I tried branching some plugins from Launchpad this week though I got the error above. So I uninstalled Bazaar and installed the newest Bazaar (Windows build), and it didn’t work. I deleted my %APPDATA%\bazaar directory thinking there might be a conflict with something I had in there, but it still didn’t work.<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>Other developers here can successfully branch from Launchpad so there is definitely something messed up with my system. I just don’t know what. I would appreciate any assistance you can offer. Or if this is the wrong forum, just let me know where to go.<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>Thanks,<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>Dan MacMillan<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p></div></body></html>