Re: Locks on the Bzr repository

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Leo <address@hidden>,
>     address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:52:44 +0900
> 
>  > If not, how do you cope with the bootstrap of a new branch, which
>  > takes much longer than writing a string to a file?
> 
> It doesn't take very long to create a new branch in a separate
> workspace.  It takes the time it takes to unpack a source tarball if
> you do it sanely.

I was talking about bootstrapping, not about branch creation.

> I just don't hesitate to do these operations in git or hg.  I hesitate
> to even think about them in bzr or darcs.

I just tried to make a local branch out of the Emacs trunk mirror.  It
took 22 seconds on x86_64 GNU/Linux.  Probably not as fast as git, but
fast enough to be a non-issue.