Comment 5 for bug 619872

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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 619872] Re: bzr: ERROR: exceptions.ValueError: tag/value separator not found in line ''

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On 8/24/2010 1:12 AM, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> My quick guess is the lock's "info" file is empty somehow (which isn't
> supposed to happen). bzr probably should handle this situation more
> gracefully somehow... probably a conservative approach would be telling
> the user something strange has happened to the lock, and please use
> break-lock to clear it. (And probably involves fixing the lock breaking
> code to handle a corrupt/empty info file too).
>

Yeah. We tend to re-read the info file to make sure we broke the lock we
thought we did. (so we can catch if someone else breaks the lock, and
creates a new one in its place, etc.)

John
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