[BUG] #32669 Adding a symlink to another branch fails

[Aaron Bentley]

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Andrew Lambe wrote:
> A related problem is renaming a symlink, which points to another branch,
> fails.
> Hence, bzr should always test to see if a file is a symlink before
> doing anything else with it (some python equivalent to lstat, sorry I'm
> not a python programmer).
> 
> Does anyone disagree?

Not with the generalities.  I don't think it's necessary to lstat the
file to avoid this problem, though.

We just need to hoist something like TreeTransform.canonical_path into
WorkingTree.

Aaron
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