Comment 6 for bug 247479

I got a similiar error when branching from bzr.dev into a shared repository using the 2a format with Bazaar 2.0.0:

bzr: ERROR: zlib.error: Error -3 while decompressing: invalid distance too far back

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 842, in exception_to_return_code
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 1037, in run_bzr
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 654, in run_argv_aliases
  File "bzrlib\builtins.pyo", line 1243, in run
  File "bzrlib\bzrdir.pyo", line 1183, in sprout
  File "bzrlib\repository.pyo", line 1695, in fetch
  File "bzrlib\decorators.pyo", line 192, in write_locked
  File "bzrlib\repository.pyo", line 3413, in fetch
  File "bzrlib\fetch.pyo", line 81, in __init__
  File "bzrlib\fetch.pyo", line 107, in __fetch
  File "bzrlib\fetch.pyo", line 135, in _fetch_everything_for_search
  File "bzrlib\repository.pyo", line 4238, in insert_stream
  File "bzrlib\repository.pyo", line 4271, in _locked_insert_stream
  File "bzrlib\groupcompress.pyo", line 1608, in insert_record_stream
  File "bzrlib\groupcompress.pyo", line 1714, in _insert_record_stream
  File "bzrlib\groupcompress.pyo", line 454, in get_bytes_as
  File "bzrlib\groupcompress.pyo", line 554, in _prepare_for_extract
  File "bzrlib\groupcompress.pyo", line 158, in _ensure_content
error: Error -3 while decompressing: invalid distance too far back

bzr 2.0.0 on python 2.5.4 (Windows-Vista-6.0.6002-SP2)
arguments: ['bzr', 'branch', 'lp:bzr']
encoding: 'cp1252', fsenc: 'mbcs', lang: None
plugins:
  bzrtools C:\Program Files\Bazaar\plugins\bzrtools [2.0.0]
  explorer C:\Program Files\Bazaar\plugins\explorer [0.8.2]
  launchpad C:\Program Files\Bazaar\plugins\launchpad [2.0.0]
  netrc_credential_store C:\Program Files\Bazaar\plugins\netrc_credential_store
[2.0.0]
  qbzr C:\Program Files\Bazaar\plugins\qbzr [0.14.2]
  rebase C:\Program Files\Bazaar\plugins\rebase [0.5.3]
  svn C:\Program Files\Bazaar\plugins\svn [1.0.0]
  upload C:\Program Files\Bazaar\plugins\upload [1.0.0dev]
  xmloutput C:\Program Files\Bazaar\plugins\xmloutput [0.8.5]