Re: bzr check

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I've never used it (in more than a year of use, maybe two), and since
>> I don't think I'm an oddball user of Bazaar, I wouldn't fault the
>> developpers if they spent 0 time on speeding up "bzr check".

> IMO, bzr check is one of those commands that you don't use most of the
> time, but when you do need it, you need it badly. Or are you saying
> that checking the consistency of the repository is really never
> needed? What do you propose when you suspect a failure, branching
> again from upstream?

How 'bout branching from the suspicious branch into a fresh new
repository?  It should rebuild the whole thing from scratch and hence
fail if there's some corruption somewhere.


        Stefan