bazaar and subversion clashed

[jeremiah lumontod]

i was running bzr branch lp:mysql-server/5.5 mysql-5.5 in a directory where the contents came from subversion version 1.7.3
i think bazaar is using the information from subversion and tried to run some modules but failed due to version incompatibility.

my initial solution is to create a directory outside of the subversion directory and again executed bzr branch lp:mysql-server/5.5 mysql-5.5, and the error is gone.

error looks like this:

bzr: ERROR: subvertpy.SubversionException: ("This client is too old to work with
 working copy 'E:\\java\\myeis'. You need\nto get a newer Subversion client, or
 to downgrade this working copy.\nSee http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#work
ing-copy-format-change\nfor details.", 155021)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 946, in exception_to_return_code
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 1150, in run_bzr
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 699, in run_argv_aliases
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 721, in run
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 135, in run_simple
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 165, in _do_with_cleanups
  File "bzrlib\builtins.pyo", line 1307, in run
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 453, in sprout
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 131, in run
  File "bzrlib\cleanup.pyo", line 165, in _do_with_cleanups
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 480, in _sprout
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 374, in determine_repository_policy
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 694, in _find_containing
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 895, in open_containing_from_transport
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 858, in open_from_transport
  File "bzrlib\transport\__init__.pyo", line 1690, in do_catching_redirections
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 845, in find_format
  File "bzrlib\controldir.pyo", line 749, in find_format
  File "C:/Bazaar/plugins\svn\__init__.py", line 164, in probe_transport
SubversionException: ("This client is too old to work with working copy 'E:\\jav
a\\myeis'. You need\nto get a newer Subversion client, or to downgrade this wor
king copy.\nSee http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#working-copy-format-change
\nfor details.", 155021)

bzr 2.4.2 on python 2.6.6 (Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3)
arguments: ['bzr', 'branch', 'lp:mysql-server/5.5', 'mysql-5.5']
plugins: bzrtools[2.4.1], changelog_merge[2.4.2], colo[0.3.1dev],
    explorer[1.2.1], fastimport[0.12.0dev], launchpad[2.4.2], loom[2.2.1dev],
    netrc_credential_store[2.4.2], news_merge[2.4.2], pipeline[1.1.0],
    qbzr[0.21.1], rewrite[0.6.3dev], svn[1.1.0], upload[1.0.1dev],
    xmloutput[0.8.7]
encoding: 'cp1252', fsenc: 'mbcs', lang: None

*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error. This probably indicates a
    bug in Bazaar. You can help us fix it by filing a bug report at
        https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
    including this traceback and a description of the problem.

running this:
bzr --version

gives me this:
Bazaar (bzr) 2.4.2
  Python interpreter: C:\Bazaar\python26.dll 2.6.6
  Python standard library: C:\Bazaar\lib\library.zip
  Platform: Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3
  bzrlib: C:\Bazaar\lib\library.zip\bzrlib

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

I'm not sure if this should really be considered a bug, or if we just shouldn't print a traceback in this case. If you update your svn libraries, bzr should be able to open this directory.

If we're trying to open a control directory and that is failing for some reason, we shouldn't silently ignore the errors.

[Martin Packman (gz)]

See duplicate 1123217 for some notes about the usability of this error message, and a note that url given is out of date.