[Pkg-bazaar-maint] Bug#672977: bzr push fails with "uncommitted changes" error, but bzr status shows nothing

[Andrew Apted]

Package: bzr
Version: 2.1.2-1
Severity: normal

I just had a problem with bzr 2.1.2 where a push failed with this error:

bzr: ERROR: Working tree "/home/ajapted/aww/" has uncommitted changes (See bzr status). Use --no-strict to force the push.

However using bzr status showed no uncommitted changes at all.
I checked that .bzrignore was not masking any files.

I don't know how to reproduce the problem, the only thing that I did differently recently
was to use "bzr shelve" on a file.  I tried unshelving that file and reverting the changes but
the error still occurred.

A workaround was to use "bzr commit --unchanged ." which committed an apparently
empty commit, but it obviously did something as since the push worked after that.

Cheers,
--
Andrew Apted


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bzr depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.11.2-7          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  python                 2.6.6-3+squeeze4  interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-central         0.6.16+nmu1       register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-configobj       4.7.2+ds-1        simple but powerful config file re
ii  python-elementtree     1.2.6-14          Light-weight toolkit for XML proce
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages bzr recommends:
pn  bzrtools                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  ca-certificates               20090814   Common CA certificates
ii  python-paramiko               1.7.4-0.1  Make ssh v2 connections with pytho

Versions of packages bzr suggests:
pn  bzr-doc                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  bzr-gtk                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  bzr-svn                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-kerberos               <none>     (no description available)
pn  python-pycurl                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  xdg-utils                     1.0.2-6.1  desktop integration utilities from

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