Diff and log options to ignore locks?

[Brian de Alwis]

I often want to do a diff in a different shell when composing my  
commit message.  But both diff and log try to lock the branch.  Is  
there a way to tell diff + log to ignore the locks?  (Perhaps I should  
change my workflow.)

Also, with bzr 1.5, the reference manual says for 'break-lock':

	You can get information on what locks are open via the 'bzr info'  
command

But, doing 'bzr info' from a locked repository (from the  
aforementioned commit) produces:

	$ bzr info
	bzr: ERROR: Could not acquire lock "[Errno 35] Resource temporarily  
unavailable"
	/usr/pkg/lib/python2.4/site-packages/bzrlib/lock.py:79: UserWarning:  
lock on <open file u'/Users/bsd/NECTAR/GT-dev/gt-autoreconnect/.bzr/ 
checkout/dirstate', mode 'rb' at 0x12b3b60> not released
	  warn("lock on %r not released" % self.f)

Brian.

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