Comment 2 for bug 98836

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 98836] Re: can't do readonly operations during a commit in a dirstate tree

> Things like this also happen if you do "bzr diff | less" with a large
> diff in one window, and "bzr add" in another.

Well, it is a bit more justifiable that diff should wait if another
command is actually modifying the tree. In this case it's not really
conceptually necessary to exclude readers while we're waiting for a
message.

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Martin