advice to break-lock includes the ".bzr/branch/lock" path, but should not

Bug #273393 reported by Robert Collins
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Bazaar
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned
Breezy
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

the advice for break-lock talks about the physical lock not the branch
object:

Will continue to try until 10:32:44, unless you press Ctrl-C
If you're sure that it's not being modified, use bzr break-lock
sftp://host/BRANCH/.bzr/branch/lock

 affects bzr
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Revision history for this message
Kent Tenney (ktenney) wrote :

I just got this error message:

Unable to obtain lock lp-140342092:///~ktenney/+junk/docubi/.bzr/branch/lock
held by <email address hidden> on host vostok [process #14126]
locked 8 hours, 7 minutes ago
Will continue to try until 11:43:31, unless you press Ctrl-C
If you're sure that it's not being modified, use
bzr break-lock lp-140342092:///~ktenney/+junk/docubi/.bzr/branch/lock

I was able to break the lock after removing -140... from the URI

Martin Pool (mbp)
summary: - bad break-lock advice
+ break-lock message includes the ".bzr/branch/lock" path, but should not
summary: - break-lock message includes the ".bzr/branch/lock" path, but should not
+ advice to break-lock includes the ".bzr/branch/lock" path, but should
+ not
Changed in bzr:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
tags: added: lock lockdir locking
tags: added: ui
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
tags: added: check-for-breezy
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
Changed in brz:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: check-for-breezy
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