No repository present error when using bzr+http protocol talking from bzr 1.5 client to a 1.3.1 repository

[Geoff Jacobsen]

Systems:

Client and server both running hardy heron (up-to-date as at 13 jun 2008)

server on bzr 1.3.1

client on bzr 1.5

Only the bzr+http protocol fails. straight http or sftp to the same repository works fine.

It does not fail if client is on bzr 1.3.1

error message:

geoffj@wairau:~/src/soshi2-repo/trunk$ bzr pull --remember bzr+http://<email address hidden>/bzr/soshi2-repo/soshi2-trunk
bzr: ERROR: No repository present: "bzr+http://<email address hidden>/bzr/soshi2-repo/soshi2-trunk/"

but works if just use http:

geoffj@wairau:~/src/soshi2-repo/trunk$ bzr pull --remember http://<email address hidden>/bzr/soshi2-repo/soshi2-trunk
http://rakaia.local/bzr/soshi2-repo/soshi2-trunk is permanently redirected to http://rakaia.local/bzr/soshi2-repo/soshi2-trunk/
No revisions to pull.

geoffj@wairau:~/src/soshi2-repo/trunk$ bzr info
Repository tree (format: pack-0.92)
Location:
  shared repository: /home/geoffj/src/soshi2-repo
  repository branch: .

Related branches:
  parent branch: http://<email address hidden>/bzr/soshi2-repo/soshi2-trunk/

[Andrew Bennetts (spiv)]

Can you attach the output in the ~/.bzr.log file with the -Dhpss flag with both bzr 1.5 and 1.3.1?

i.e.:

bzr -Dhpss pull ...

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Thanks Geoff, but the flag name is actually case-sensitive: you need
-Dhpss not -DHpss.

--
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>

[Geoff Jacobsen (geoffj)]

Oops, sorry about that

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

So the key difference seems to be that 1.5 keeps sending

12.293 hpss call: 'BzrDir.find_repositoryV2', '.'
12.293 (to http://<email address hidden>/bzr/soshi2-repo/soshi2-trunk/)
12.994 result: 0.701s 'ok', '..', 'no', 'no', 'no'

with the same parameters, and then eventually it fails. Whereas with 1.3 it does ask for '../' and finds the repository there, then proceeds.

[Andrew Bennetts (spiv)]

This is bug 230550, which is fixed in bzr 1.6beta1 and later.