Comment 2 for bug 336618

Same here, with 1.13 from ubuntu...

uqbar[dev]> bzr merge ../lp
bzr: ERROR: exceptions.AssertionError: Unknown kind 'absent'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 716, in exception_to_return_code
    return the_callable(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 911, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 547, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/qbzr/lib/commands.py", line 632, in run
    return bzrlib.builtins.cmd_merge.run(self, *args, **kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 3443, in run
    verified)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 3461, in _do_merge
    conflict_count = merger.do_merge()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 493, in do_merge
    self._do_merge_to(merge)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 465, in _do_merge_to
    merge.do_merge()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 604, in do_merge
    self._compute_transform()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 647, in _compute_transform
    file_status = self.merge_contents(file_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/merge.py", line 1149, in merge_contents
    self.other_tree, file_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/transform.py", line 2291, in create_from_tree
    raise AssertionError('Unknown kind %r' % kind)
AssertionError: Unknown kind 'absent'

bzr 1.13 on python 2.5.2 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'merge', '../lp']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_US.UTF-8'
plugins:
  avahi /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/avahi [0.3dev]
  builddeb /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/builddeb [2.0.2]
  bzrtools /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/bzrtools [1.13]
  dbus /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/dbus [unknown]
  email /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/email [unknown]
  gtk /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/gtk [0.95.0.final.1]
  launchpad /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [unknown]
  netrc_credential_store /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/netrc_credential_store [unknown]
  pqm /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/pqm [1.0dev]
  qbzr /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/qbzr [0.9.8]
  rebase /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/rebase [0.3]
  stats /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/stats [unknown]
  svn /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/svn [0.5.3]
  upload /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/upload [0.1]