bzr-svn issue...

[John Arbash Meinel]

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John Szakmeister wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:13 AM, John Szakmeister <john at szakmeister.net> wrote:
>> While running "bzr qlog" against a svn repo at work, I get the following error:
>>    bzr: ERROR: Invalid revision-id
>> {svn-v4:xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx:trunk:583} in
>> SvnRepository('http://usr/to/repo')
>>
>> bzr log works fine.  Specifying that revision on the command line to
>> log works fine too.  Any reason why I'd see that error?  It's
>> obviously valid.
> 
>  A little more information.  I temporarily changed InvalidRevisionId
> to derive from InternalBzrError so that I could get a traceback.  It
> appears to be throwing the error on line 938 of svn/repository.py in
> the get_revision function.  After a little more digging, it appears
> that the revision_id is being passed in as a unicode string, and that
> function is checking to be sure that it's just a plain string.  So, it
> appears that QBzr is doing the wrong thing here... I'm still trying to
> figure out where things went wrong though.
> 
> -John
> 
> 

In memory, revision_ids are supposed to be utf-8 strings. If it is a
unicode string, it is actually wrong. QBzr is being more cautious
because it probably has to pass UTF-8 strings to the Qt layer.

Oh, and you should be able to do "bzr -Derror" to get a traceback.

John
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