add fails with "No such file" on win32

[mgm]

Under windows XP, bzr add Q:\archive\myfile.txt fails with the message bzr: ERROR: No such file: u'Q:/rchive/myfile.txt`
Changes to existing files can still be committed, but this bug pretty much kills bzr's utility.

Version info:
Bazaar (bzr) 1.14
  Python interpreter: C:\Program Files\Bazaar\python25.dll 2.5.2
  Python standard library: C:\Program Files\Bazaar\lib\library.zip
  bzrlib: C:\Program Files\Bazaar\lib\library.zip\bzrlib
  Bazaar configuration: C:\Documents and Settings\mmartin\Application Data\bazaar\2.0

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Hi mmartin, thanks for the report.

What happens if you cd to q:\archive and then try 'bzr add myfile.txt'?

[mgm (matt-martin-ieee)]

The error happens the same way regardless of CWD . Also happends if tbzr is used.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

2009/5/21 mgm <email address hidden>:
> The error happens the same way regardless of CWD . Also happends if tbzr
> is used.

Could you please post the traceback shown by 'bzr -Derror add myfile.txt'?

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

[mgm (matt-martin-ieee)]

I guess the email reply didn't work. Here is the traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 727, in exception_to_return_code
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 922, in run_bzr
  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 559, in run_argv_aliases
  File "bzrlib\builtins.pyo", line 587, in run
  File "bzrlib\mutabletree.pyo", line 52, in tree_write_locked
  File "bzrlib\mutabletree.pyo", line 392, in smart_add
  File "bzrlib\osutils.pyo", line 1728, in file_kind
NoSuchFile: No such file: u'Q:/rchive/myfile.txt'

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

2009/5/27 mgm <email address hidden>:
> I guess the email reply didn't work. Here is the traceback:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 727, in exception_to_return_code
>  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 922, in run_bzr
>  File "bzrlib\commands.pyo", line 559, in run_argv_aliases
>  File "bzrlib\builtins.pyo", line 587, in run
>  File "bzrlib\mutabletree.pyo", line 52, in tree_write_locked
>  File "bzrlib\mutabletree.pyo", line 392, in smart_add
>  File "bzrlib\osutils.pyo", line 1728, in file_kind
> NoSuchFile: No such file: u'Q:/rchive/myfile.txt'
>

So, for the sake of not jumping to conclusions, is the directory name
actually 'rchive' or 'archive' and a character is being lost
somewhere? If the latter it's quite mysterious, but it would explain
why we get command not found.

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

[mgm (matt-martin-ieee)]

Per the original bug report, the file of interest in this example is "Q:\archive\myfile.txt". BZR is somehow cutting off the first letter of the path (beyond the drive letter). It certainly is quite mysterious.

[Wouter van Heyst (larstiq)]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:36:54AM -0000, mgm wrote:
> Per the original bug report, the file of interest in this example is
> "Q:\archive\myfile.txt". BZR is somehow cutting off the first letter of
> the path (beyond the drive letter). It certainly is quite mysterious.

The escape sequence '\a' is the ascii Bell. Could you try:

    bzr add Q:/archive/myfile.txt

instead of

    bzr add Q:\archive\myfile.txt

If that works, Windows path handling is going wrong somewhere. If it
doesn't, something else is up.

Wouter van Heyst

[mgm (matt-martin-ieee)]

Same result regardless of using forward or back slashes, or changing to the directory interest and adding the file without a path.

To be clear:
    bzr add Q:/archive/myfile.txt
    bzr add Q:\archive\myfile.txt
and
   q:
   cd archive
   bzr add myfile.txt

All give the same error.

[mgm (matt-martin-ieee)]

I have answered all questions and this bug is still marked as "incomplete". Is anyone out there ?

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Hi,

I agree the bug's complete though I personally don't know what could be causing this. I see you said in the early comment it happens regardless of cwd. Does it happen if you use a different path like "c:\test\"?

(btw you can change the bug status yourself if you think it's no longer incomplete.)