Status doesn't work over symlink

[Alexandre Garnier]

When referencing a branch through a symlink without trailing '/', bzr status doesn't work (unlike diff) with a not very helpfull message :

$ bzr init branch
$ touch branch/file
$ bzr add branch/file
added file
$ bzr st branch
added:
  file
$ bzr st branch/
added:
  file
$ ln -s branch link
$ ls -l
total 4,0K
drwxr-xr-x 3 alex alex 4,0K 2008-07-21 21:25 branch/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alex alex 6 2008-07-21 21:25 link -> branch/
$ bzr st link
bzr: ERROR: link is not in the same branch as link
$ bzr st link/
added:
  file
$ bzr diff link
=== added file 'file'

.bzr.log of error :
0.062 encoding stdout as sys.stdout encoding 'UTF-8'
0.063 bzr arguments: [u'st', u'link']
0.063 looking for plugins in /home/alex/.bazaar/plugins
0.090 looking for plugins in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins
0.090 Plugin name __init__ already loaded
0.090 Plugin name __init__ already loaded
0.101 encoding stdout as sys.stdout encoding 'UTF-8'
0.158 opening working tree '/home/alex/tmp/bzr/branch'
0.161 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 834, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 790, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 492, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 800, in ignore_pipe
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/alex/.bazaar/plugins/xmloutput/__init__.py", line 75, in run
    builtins.cmd_status.run(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 800, in ignore_pipe
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 185, in run
    tree, file_list = tree_files(file_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 67, in tree_files
    (e.path, file_list[0]))
BzrCommandError: link is not in the same branch as link

0.161 return code 3

0.062 encoding stdout as sys.stdout encoding 'UTF-8'
0.063 bzr arguments: [u'st', u'link/']
0.063 looking for plugins in /home/alex/.bazaar/plugins
0.089 looking for plugins in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins
0.090 Plugin name __init__ already loaded
0.090 Plugin name __init__ already loaded
0.101 encoding stdout as sys.stdout encoding 'UTF-8'
0.157 opening working tree '/home/alex/tmp/bzr/branch'
0.161 check paths: ['']
0.163 return code 0

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

This has the same root cause as bug 128562 and with that fixed, you should see:

 bzr st link/ -- status of the referenced branch
 bzr st link -- tells you about changes to the link