Comment 2 for bug 165313

The public location of the branch is generally going to be a, http, bzr or bzr+ssh URL: all of which will involve some form of IPC (often remote), so we still try to access it using an external protocol even if the working tree is nominally the public location.

In contrast, the uncomitted changes check is always going to be local and will likely be quite fast if it is in cache. It won't be any slower than "bzr status". So I think it is worth doing the changes in the other order.