Comment 14 for bug 709349

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 709349] Re: bzr: ERROR: bzrlib.errors.RetryWithNewPacks: Unprintable exception RetryWithNewPacks

On 24 March 2011 06:48, John A Meinel <email address hidden> wrote:
> If this is true, something is able to generate pack files that are
> colliding. This shouldn't really be possible, since if we have the
> content, we shouldn't think we need to pull it in again.
>
> I guess if you are doing concurrent pulling from the same branch to the
> same repository, since the first update hasn't finished yet, it doesn't
> see the content is already present. And the second fetch starts before
> the first one finishes, doing exactly the same work.

That sounds entirely possible. It seems like we need to do something
like just checking whether a file identical to the one we want to
generate is now present, rather than restarting as such. I thought we
already did that.