"bzr status" fails due to lock by "bzr commit"

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> writes:

>> If you want to give it a try, this patch should do:
>> === modified file 'bzrlib/msgeditor.py'
>> - --- bzrlib/msgeditor.py 2009-03-23 14:59:43 +0000
>> +++ bzrlib/msgeditor.py 2010-01-05 04:24:02 +0000
>
> Thanks, but unfortunately I can't, at least not without some help: I
> installed Bazaar with a stand-alone Windows installer, which is
> probably the reason why I don't see msgeditor.py anywhere on my disk.
>
> I could probably download Bazaar sources

bzr branch lp:bzr

> and patch msgeditor.py there,
> but is there a way to tell bzr to use that msgeditor.py instead of
> whatever binary form of it lives on my machine?
> (library.zip:msgeditor.pyo, is that right?)

On the directory created with the previous branch command there is a
file named `bzr'. Execute it with python:

python path/to/that/bzr args

-- 
Óscar