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

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On 27/07/11 02:35, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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’.
>
"bzr pull" is roughly the same thing as "hg fetch". "bzr update" in a 
branch that is not bound (a hg branch can not be) usually simply tells 
you along the lines of:
Tree is up to date at revision 499 of branch /home/jelmer/src/bzr-hg/trunk

Cheers,

Jelmer