Comment 3 for bug 449886

Okay, somehow or another, my repository was also itself a bound branch, which seems to be the cause of this (I have no idea how this happened--probably an error on my part a long time ago). Removing that repository and doing a new init-repo, and then trying to do --reconfigure works fine.

So this is still a dataloss issue, just not one that's going to be so common, I think.