Thanks Terry! That got me out of the hole.

Was the mistake I made merging from `trunk` into `pypi-packaging` instead
of the other way around?

-matt


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Terry Brown <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sat, 11 May 2013 23:34:17 -0700
> Matt Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > bzr: ERROR: Server sent an unexpected error: ('error',
> > 'AppendRevisionsOnlyViolation', 'Operation denied because it would change
> > the main history, which is not permitted by the append_revisions_only
> > setting on branch
> > "chroot-84479760:///~leo-editor-team/leo-editor/trunk3/".')
>
> Whatever you tried would have changed the trunk from this
>
> 1234  Did something - Edward
> 1233  Did something - Edward
> 1232  Did something - Edward
> 1231  Did something - Edward
> 1230  Did something - Edward
> 1229  Did something - Edward
> 1228  Did something - Edward
>
> to
>
> 1230  What Matt did - Matt
>   1230.5  Did something - Edward
>   1230.4  Did something - Edward
>   1230.3  Did something - Edward
>   1230.2  Did something - Edward
>   1230.1  Did something - Edward
> 1229  Did something - Edward
> 1228  Did something - Edward
>
> which loses nothing, but makes the timeline of the trunk harder to
> follow, so there's a flag set on the repo. to prevent that.
>
> so you just need to branch a fresh copy of the trunk in a separate
> folder from where you did your work(*), and them merge from your branch
> into the fresh trunk, and push that, resulting in the trunk becoming
>
> 1235  .leo association stuff - Matt
>   1235.2 more work on association - Matt
>   1235.1 first attempt at association - Matt
> 1234  Did something - Edward
> 1233  Did something - Edward
> 1232  Did something - Edward
> ...
>
> (*) pulling a fresh copy of the trunk is very quick *if* you have your
> branches in a common shared repository folder, it may be quite slow
> otherwise.
>
> Cheers -Terry
>

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