Comment 2 for bug 655277

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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote : Re: [Bug 655277] Re: bzr bd --native fails if debian/source/format is not set

Quoting Jelmer Vernooij (<email address hidden>):
> This is because that file existed previously. You have to remove it from
> bzr explicitly by using "bzr rm debian/source/format".

I guess I failed in my attempts to reproduce the original error message.
But I'm telling you that 'bzr bd' also fails if debian/source never
existed. I just didn't want to create a new tree just to get the
original error message.

> I guess we could handle this a bit nicer and automatically update the
> dirstate before exporting.

No, that isn't worth fixing. That wasn't what I was trying to report.