Bazaar Fast Import

fast-export fails on previously split branch

Bug #338781 reported by David O'Callaghan
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Bazaar Fast Import
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

I attempted to run "bzr fast-export" on a branch and it crashed. This branch had previously been split off larger branch using "bzr split". The crash occurs when running the command with output directed to a file.

I have also run a similar command with output directed to "git fast-import" and in this case the import is successful up to the revision where the split occurred, so it appears to be related to the split.

Let me know if I need to provide further details.

Tags: export
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David O'Callaghan (david-ocallaghan) wrote :
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David O'Callaghan (david-ocallaghan) wrote :

Note, if I run with "--checkpoint=1" it gets as far as "bzr fast-export: Exported 11 commits - checkpointing". Revision 12 is the revision in which the split was made.

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Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy) wrote :

I don't have a fix for this yet but I've added some earlier checking to revision 147. Can you try again with that version and attach the exception please?

As best I can tell so far, a FileCommand within a CommitCommand is being created with an empty path. I'm not sure why. Once I understand the root cause, we can talk about what the right/best behaviour is.

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David O'Callaghan (david-ocallaghan) wrote : Re: [Bug 338781] Re: fast-export fails on previously split branch

Hi,

On 08/03/09 12:48, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> I don't have a fix for this yet but I've added some earlier checking to
> revision 147. Can you try again with that version and attach the
> exception please?

Attached as test147.log

> As best I can tell so far, a FileCommand within a CommitCommand is being
> created with an empty path. I'm not sure why. Once I understand the root
> cause, we can talk about what the right/best behaviour is.

Perhaps this could be due to the "split" commit including a rename:

perl =>

(That is, the subdir "perl" was renamed to "", the root). See (edited)
rev12.log.

Kind regards,

David

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David O'Callaghan (david-ocallaghan) wrote :

I came up with a workaround for my particular problem. The solution is to export the revisions before and after the split, skipping the split revision and filtering the pre-split revisions:

    (bzr fast-export -r1..11 ~/src/repo | bzr fast-import-filter -i subdir/ -; bzr fast-export -r13..19 ~/src/repo) | git fast-import

The resulting repo contains only the history related to the split-off subdir, which is what I wanted.

Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy)
tags: added: export
Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy)
Changed in bzr-fastimport:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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