brz and symlinks inside branch checkout

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi!

I have a file in a directory inside my home directory that is linked to 
ecryptfs encrypted Private directory and thus is in a different 
filesystem than ~.

brz 3.0.0~bzr6964-1 does not work with this:

%> brz revert .symlink-to-directory-in-Private/somefile
 M  Private/.symlink-to-directory-in-Private/somefile                                                                                                                                                    
brz: ERROR: Unprintable exception TransformRenameFailed: dict={'errno': 
18, 'from_path': u'/home/someuser/Private/.symlink-to-directory-in-
Private/somefile', 'to_path': u'/home/someuser/.bzr/checkout/limbo/
new-1', 'why': '[Errno 18] Ung\xc3\xbcltiger Link \xc3\xbcber Ger
\xc3\xa4tegrenzen hinweg'}, fmt='Failed to rename %(from_path)s to %
(to_path)s: %(why)s', error=UnicodeDecodeError('ascii', '[Errno 18] Ung
\xc3\xbcltiger Link \xc3\xbcber Ger\xc3\xa4tegrenzen hinweg', 14, 15, 
'ordinal not in range(128)')

(german text means "invalid cross-device link")

%> LANG=C brz revert .symlink-to-directory-in-Private/somefile
 M  Private/.symlink-to-directory-in-Private/somefile                                                                                                                                                    
brz: ERROR: Failed to rename /home/someuser/Private/.symlink-to-
directory-in-Private/somefile to /home/someuser/.bzr/checkout/limbo/
new-1: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link

Is there any way around this limitation that a repository needs to 
reside on one and the same filesystem, any way to handle sym links 
transparently?

Thanks,
-- 
Martin