checkout and pull on readonly branch

[William Dode]

On 25-09-2006, Robert Collins wrote:
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> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 07:44 +0000, William Dode wrote:
>> On 21-09-2006, Erik B=E5gfors wrote:
>> > On 9/21/06, William Dode <wilk-ml at flibuste.net> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
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>> >> I just see that we can checkout --lightweight a readonly branch. But
>> >> after that we cannot pull to stay up to date. Is it a missing feature =
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>> > Not really, try "bzr update".  What you are trying to do is to pull
>> > something into the branch that you have checked out.  Since you do not
>> > have write-access to it, that's not going to work.
>> >
>> > To update your working tree, use "bzr update"
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>> right, but it doesn't work now :
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>> wilk at domino:/vrac/python/bzr.dev$ bzr update
>> bzr: ERROR: Cannot lock: transport is read only: <bzrlib.transport.http._=
> pycurl.PyCurlTransport url=3Dhttp://bazaar-ng.org/bzr/bzr.dev/.bzr/reposito=
> ry/>
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> both pull and update normally are able to alter the branch that is being
> pulled into/updated. This is not the case with a lightweight checkout,
> so the usual decorator based locking behaviour fails.
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> I'm filing a bug now - thanks for the report.

Could you tell me the bug Id, i couldn't find it and i would like to 
follow this...

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