bzr dies with parse error on corrupted history

Bug #234647 reported by GiuseppeVerde
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #379582: want a way to rebuild broken dirstate. Edit Remove
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Bazaar
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

I apparently unknowingly shut down during a lengthy commit operation, and now I cannot do anything with bzr there. The error will be attached shortly.

Please let me know how to get bzr operational here again; I need to keep it going. (I don't care if I have to re-commit)

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GiuseppeVerde (launchpad-digitasaru) wrote :
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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote :

Quick and dirty solution:

cd work
mv .bzr/checkout .bzr/checkout-old
cd ..
bzr co --lightweight work alt
mv alt/.bzr/checkout work/.bzr/checkout

Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
Changed in bzr:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Martin Pool (mbp)
Changed in bzr:
status: Triaged → Confirmed
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