Re: Switching to bzr: what remains to be done?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Is this expected?  One hour to check out Emacs seems excessive.

Stefan> I think it's pretty much expected, yes.  Bzr is not a speed daemon, and
Stefan> the initial checkout is a case in point.  Luckily, this is not a common
Stefan> occurrence, and it can be sped up in all kinds of ways (e.g. provide
Stefan> a tarball snapshot of the checked out tree).

I wonder why bzr can't do that itself.


An update is also is quite slow:

opsy. time bzr pull
Using saved parent location: http://bzr.notengoamigos.org/emacs/trunk/
 M  INSTALL                                                                    
 M  admin/notes/copyright
 M  lib-src/ChangeLog
 M  lib-src/ebrowse.c
 M  lib-src/etags.c
 M  lib-src/rcs2log
 M  lisp/ChangeLog
 M  lisp/net/tramp.el
 M  lisp/version.el
 M  nextstep/ChangeLog
 M  nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Info.plist
 M  nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
 M  nextstep/GNUstep/Emacs.base/Resources/Info-gnustep.plist
All changes applied successfully.                                              
Now on revision 95259.

real    1m17.355s
user    0m8.825s
sys     0m0.520s

That is a lot of time for a pretty small change.

Tom