Comment 5 for bug 139478

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 139478] Re: UnlockableTransport running update in checkout of readonly branch

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 22:40 +0000, Martin Pool wrote:
> John suggests this may happen when a commit --local has been done before
> the update. Are there other circumstances? Will a plain checkout;
> update; update ever cause this?

If that has been done, it should cause a pivot to occur - the local
branch's head becomes the master's, and the old head becomes a pending
merge.

Neither of which require write access to the master.

-Rob

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