Bazaar repository got broken by moving it

Question

I've gotten the OpenERP source using the instructions.

I've moved the whole source directory somewhere else in my home.

Now, when I try to pull changes it throws errors:

shahar@shahar-desktop:~/src/openerp⟫ make pull
# update all trunk branch
for i in addons client oldweb web server; do [ -d $i ] && (cd $i && bzr pull && cd ..); done
bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "/home/shahar/src/openerp/addons/.bzr/branches/origin/trunk/
/".
bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "/home/shahar/src/openerp/client/.bzr/branches/origin/trunk/
/".
bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "/home/shahar/src/openerp/web/.bzr/branches/origin/trunk/
/".
bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "/home/shahar/src/openerp/server/.bzr/branches/origin/trunk/
/".
make: *** [pull] Error 3
2 shahar@shahar-desktop:~/src/openerp⟫

It isn't the make script that's at fault:

2 shahar@shahar-desktop:~/src/openerp⟫ cd server/
shahar@shahar-desktop:~/src/openerp/server⟫ bzr pull
bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "/home/shahar/src/openerp/server/.bzr/branches/origin/trunk/
/".
3 shahar@shahar-desktop:~/src/openerp/server⟫

The paths that are printed above seem to be stemming from each repository's .bzr/branch/location file.

I've discovered this file when I tried to fix this issue by using grep -rI /home/shahar. And then I've changed the path within this file from what it was to what you see now. I thought that it could perhaps fix the issue but it didn't. I still got the same errors (with the new paths).

I couldn't find any info about moving bzr repositories in the whole of the interwebs with Google or in StackOverflow.

Thanks.

Answer 1

The installation script you used seems to use the bzr-colo plugin to manage colocated branches. The bzr-colo manual indicates that because absolute pathnames are used to store references to branches, when a colocated workspace is moved on disk, the link from the checkout to the current branch gets broken.
This can theoretically be fixed by running bzr colo-fixup in the broken branch directory, however it does not seem work very often (in my experience).

In that case the manual recommends running this command to re-force a branch switch:

    bzr switch --force .bzr/branches/<current branch name>

According to the output of your commands, this should be:

    bzr switch --force .bzr/branches/origin/trunk

for you.

You do not even need to edit the .bzr/branch/location first, as it will be correct after the switch. This has always fixed the situation for me.