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

[Andrew Lambe]

Whatever fixes the problem.  I don't know that much about the bzr
internals.

Andrew Lambe
Systems Programmer
Information Technology
Oral Roberts University
Tulsa, Oklahoma

>>> Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> 2/24/2006 11:11 AM >>>
> 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