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Import branch from exiv2 repo failed

Asked by Alan Pater

I've been trying to update https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/exiv2/trunk

It keeps failing. On one attempt it got most of the way, and failed with the following:

2015-05-11 19:15:59 INFO fetching svn revision info 3680/3816
2015-05-11 19:16:59 INFO fetching svn revision info 3767/3816
2015-05-11 19:17:40 INFO
2015-05-11 19:17:41 INFO Importing branch.
2015-05-11 19:17:41 INFO determining revisions to fetch 0/3816
2015-05-11 19:18:41 INFO determining revisions to fetch 319/3816
2015-05-11 19:19:41 INFO determining revisions to fetch 768/3816
2015-05-11 19:20:41 INFO determining revisions to fetch 1128/3816
2015-05-11 19:21:30 INFO
2015-05-11 19:22:43 INFO 47 bytes transferred | determining revisions to fetch 1407/3816
2015-05-11 19:22:47 INFO copying revision 0/500
2015-05-11 19:22:53 INFO
2015-05-11 19:22:53 INFO Unable to import branch because of limitations in Bazaar.
2015-05-11 19:22:53 INFO Unable to convert Subversion path msvc64\runner.txt because it contains characters invalid in Bazaar.

That last file path: msvc64\runner.txt no longer exists in the repo.

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Alan Pater (alan-pater) said : 		#1

There seems to be another exiv2 branch that has not been updated for years.

https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-desktop/exiv2/ubuntu

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Alan Pater (alan-pater) said : 		#2

Does the branch need to be eliminated and then re-added?

I just tried again and it failed with the same error.

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#3

bzr-svn needs to import the branch's history, so it's not sufficient to remove the bad filename from the current state of the repository. It is not possible for Launchpad to import that repository into Bazaar itself.

You may be able to find an external application other than bzr-svn that can convert it to Bazaar. Alternatively, Launchpad will be gaining Git support for most of its functionality over the next few months, which might make things easier than regularly importing the repo into Bazaar.

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