bzr error: "Tree transform is malformed"

[knubee]

>  knubee wrote:
>  > After a fresh successful checkout, we are getting the following error
>  > when running "bzr update"
>  >
>  > bzr: ERROR: Tree transform is malformed [('versioning no contents',
>  > 'new-87'), ('versioning no contents', ... etc.
>  >
>  > What does this mean and what is the solution?
>
>  Well, I need a lot more detail to say what it means for you.  On a
>  technical level, update does a merge, and it means that trying to
>  perform the merge led to trying to place non-existent files under
>  version control.  So it's a bug, but I don't know the cause yet.

sorry to take so long to follow up. we've been having other troubles
that took priority ....

we have not been able to replicate the error. (perhaps it had
something to do with symlinks?).

if this happens again, i will post more details.

thanks.