Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Willing to Assist with Bazaar

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:29:30 -0400
> From: Assaf Gordon <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> I have few questions:

I'm not Richard, but I will try.

> 1.
> How can I tell (programatically) which branches does a repository have, or 
> alternatively, clone them all at once?

The command is "bzr branches".

> or, if a project doesn't have sub-branches, how can I tell ?

There's no such thing, AFAIK: each bzr project includes at least one
branch.

> How can I get a custom log format in an easy way ?

AFAIK, only by writing a plugin.

> I want to get the commit's date, revision id, user email, user name, and 
> first subject line.

"bzr log --line" will give you everything except email.

> I seem to have problems cloning a large repository on a virtual machine with 
> limited RAM (512MB, but likely ~380MB free).
> For example, when trying to clone the emacs repository at 
> "http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/";,
> I get a lot of "Killed" messages (I guess due to OOM), and the clone fails.

You need more RAM.