[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#635557: Bug#635557: bzr-hg: update in Mercurial repository crashes with ReadOnlyError

[Ben Finney]

On 27-Jul-2011, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On 27/07/11 01:41, Ben Finney wrote:
> >Bazaar recognises a Mercurial repository, but crashes when I try to
> >update it.
> >
> >I would expect an update to succeed simply because Mercurial can do the
> >same.
> "bzr update" in a hg branch doesn't really make sense as Mercurial
> branches can't be bound. "hg update" and "bzr update" are not the
> same thing.

I was referring not to ‘hg update’, but to ‘hg fetch’, which pretty much
*is* the same thing as ‘bzr update’. So:

    I would expect a ‘bzr update’ to succeed simply because Mercurial can
    do essentially the same with ‘hg fetch’.

-- 
 \           “I got a postcard from my best friend, it was a satellite |
  `\      picture of the entire Earth. On the back he wrote, ‘Wish you |
_o__)                                      were here’.” —Steven Wright |
Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-bazaar-maint/attachments/20110727/c44e297f/attachment.pgp>