bzr send takes a write lock on the source branch

[Martin Pool]

bzr send apparently takes a write lock on the source branch. This seems unnecessary.

example:

 ./bzr send --format 0.9 -o /tmp/food
Unable to obtain lock file:///home/mbp/bzr/dummy-progress/.bzr/branch/lock
held by <email address hidden> on host grace [process #6013]
locked 27 seconds ago
....

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 04:13 +0000, Martin Pool wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> bzr send apparently takes a write lock on the source branch. This seems
> unnecessary.

send can do a pull I think, to get data from the target branch.

-Rob

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Wouldn't a repository write lock be sufficient for that?