Weird "info" with the '2a' format...

[Martin Pool]

2009/7/15 John Szakmeister <john at szakmeister.net>:
> I've started work on a plugin to help submit merge directives to a
> review board server.  Since I work on several different machines, I
> decided to push the code to a junk branch on launchpad.  Note: I the
> branch was created with the 2a format, since I figured it might help
> wring out some bugs.  After branching it off launchpad and bringing it
> down to another box, I get this when I run 'bzr info':
>    Standalone tree (format: unnamed)
>    Location:
>      branch root: .
>
>    Related branches:
>      parent branch:
> bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ejszakmeister/%2Bjunk/bzr-rb-submit/
>
> Why does it say "format: unnamed"?  On the original box, it says
> "format: 2a".  And in .bzr/repository/format, it says 2a.

It's a known bug; in brief it's because 2a actually means a
combination of repo, branch, and wt formats and we don't always map
back correctly to that name.


-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>