Re: visiting files in Bazaar workarea

[Bernardo]

>> if i run:
>>   $ emacs -Q some_filename
>> 
>> in a directory which contains (or its parent has) .bzr directory *and*
>> currently don't have connection to the corresponding Bazaar repository,
>> Emacs stalls and fails to load the file.  An example would be when
>> Bazaar repository is somewhere on the LAN and temporarily there's no
>> connection to it.
>
> Is that Bazaar branch a lightweight checkout?  That is, did you
> checkout the directory in a way that leaves all the meta-data on the
> remote server?
>
> What was the command you used to checkout the Emacs development tree?
>
> AFAIK, the only situation where bzr wants to connect to the remote
> server is when the meta-data is not available locally.  The default is
> to have it cloned to the local computer, so you must have done
> something to prevent that.
>
>> Anybody knows about a nice way around this?
>
> Yes, don't use lightweight checkouts.

you're right - in both instances it was a lightweight checkout;

my mind was focused on searching for solutions *within* Emacs and failed
to see the problem's context

thanks