On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:34 PM, mdb <[email protected]> wrote:

> Short answer:    branching over http on Windows fails, but branching
> over bzr+ssh succeeds.

Many thanks for this detective work.

> The easy solution on my side was to login to launchpad so the transfer
> goes through bzr+ssh instead of http (the anonymous method).

I had forgotten that http access was possible at all.

I'll have to say something more about using bzr to get Leo.

> ...  my guess is that 'lp:leo-editor' has a bit of junk data in it.
[snip]
> spellpyx.txt-20080228081140-oy1uzrph8dr32kq8-508

> This file is referenced in a revision which is no longer in the
> ancestry of lp:leo-editor.

Huh?

> My guess is he committed it by mistake, pushed it to Launchpad,
> realized his error,
> uncommitted it, and then started a new branch. However, the data is
> still there in the repository.

Yes.  That is what happened.  I don't remember the details, but at one
time spellpyx.txt was huge.

> The best way to get rid of it is to get someone to branch it into
> another location (which won't include it) delete that repository, and
> push the 'clean' branch back into place.

Ah Geeze.  Is there no way to delete unwanted files?

I suppose this would work, but it seems risky.

Edward

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