Comment 10 for bug 377519

By the way, here's a Python script to help do part 2 of the workaround in comment #1:

# Usage: touch-branch.py URL

from bzrlib.plugin import load_plugins
load_plugins()

from bzrlib.bzrdir import BzrDir
import sys
b = BzrDir.open(sys.argv[1]).open_branch(ignore_fallbacks=True)
b.lock_write()
b.unlock()