Cannot remove dangling symlink
Bug #257665 reported by
Russ Brown
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #128562: bzr commit FILE breaks when given symlink as argument.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bazaar |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
This is probably covered by other bugs that appear to deal with the same problem, but for other commands. Raising it for completeness.
Our migrated repository contains a stray dangling symlink that points to a file that doesn't exist, and bzr won't let me delete it.
Steps to reproduce:
bzr init test
cd test
ln -s /nowhere f
bzr add f
bzr ci -m "New"
bzr rm f
bzr rm --force f
The last two commands both respond with this:
bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "/nowhere/".
Tested with 1.5, 1.6b3. 1.6r1 and bzr.dev.
Revision history for this message
| James Westby (james-w) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in bzr: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Martin Pool (mbp) wrote | #2 |
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Hi,
The workaround is to simply "rm" the symlink, and bzr notices and does
the remove at the next commit.
Thanks,
James