Re: Emacs Bazaar repository

[Jason Earl]

Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:

> "Jonathan Lange" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Jonathan Lange <address@hidden> wrote:
>   > >
>   > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Karl Fogel <address@hidden> wrote:
>   > >  > Jason Earl <address@hidden> writes:
>   > >  >
>   > >  > > bzr clone http://bzr.notengoamigos.org/emacs/trunk/
>   > >  >
>   > >  >  By the way, strongly suggest a dest name after that:
>   > >  >
>   > >  >    bzr clone http://bzr.notengoamigos.org/emacs/trunk/ emacs-bzr
>   > >  >
>   > >  >  or something.  Probably no one wants their local clone directory to 
> be
>   > >  >  named "trunk" :-).
>   > >  >
>   > >
>   > >  Actually, it's probably a good idea to do make a shared repository
>   > >  called 'emacs-bzr' and use the original clone command inside that. So,
>   > >
>   > >   bzr init-repo emacs-bzr
>   > >   cd emacs-bzr
>   > >
>   > >   bzr clone http://bzr.notengoamigos.org/emacs/trunk/
>   > >
>   > >  That way, Bazaar will share revisions between branches of Emacs,
>   > >  making it faster to clone other branches.
>   > >
>   > 
>   > Which reminds me. An even better way to do the initial download is this:
>   > 
>   >  # Get the tarball
>   >  $ wget http://bzr.notengoamigos.org/emacs.tar.gz
>   >  $ tar xzf emacs.tar.gz
>   > 
>   >  # Make a repo
>   >  $ bzr init-repo emacs-bzr
>   > 
>   >  # Seed it with the downloaded branch
>   >  $ cd emacs-bzr
>   >  $ bzr branch ../emacs trunk
>                   ^^^^^^^^^
> Is this actually  ../emacs/trunk  ?

No, Jonathan didn't realize that the tarball already contains a shared
repository.  There is no need to create a repository for yourself if you
download the tarball.

> (Could you please update the website with these instructions? A good
> place would be after the place where you talk about downloading the
> .tar.gz file, they are very useful)

The website is as it stands is correct.

> BTW, how fast is "bzr annotate" supposed to be?
>
> time bzr annotate vc.el >& /dev/null
> 133.673u 2.392s 2:23.78 94.6%   0+0k 39864+16io 1pf+0w
>
> The similar command for  Emacs CVS HEAD:
> time cvs annotate vc.el >& /dev/null
> 0.250u 0.064s 0:03.22 9.6%      0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>
> Thanks a lot for doing all this!

That's about how long it took on my machine as well.

Jason