Colocating a branch a repository remotely complains about .bzr not being a local path

  > bzr init-repo sftp://localhost/tmp/repo
  larstiq@localhost's password:
  Shared repository with trees (format: pack-0.92)
  Location:
    shared repository: sftp://localhost/tmp/repo/

  > bzr init sftp://localhost/tmp/repo
  larstiq@localhost's password:
  bzr: ERROR: sftp://localhost/tmp/repo/.bzr/ is not a local path.

However, the operation did succeed.

 > bzr info /tmp/repo
 Repository branch (format: pack-0.92)
 Location:
   shared repository: /tmp/repo
   repository branch: /tmp/repo

Without looking at the code I'm suspecting a WorkingTree is trying to be opened. (same cause as https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/53668/comments/1 perhaps)