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

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello Eli,

On 09/10/2014 02:01 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:29:30 -0400
> > From: Assaf Gordon <address@hidden>
> > 1.
> > How can I tell (programatically) which branches does a repository have, or 
> > alternatively, clone them all at once?
>
> The command is "bzr branches".

I can't get this to work - perhaps I'm using an incorrect URL ?

Examples:
    $ bzr branches bzr://bzr.savannah.nongnu.org/gnewsense
    ( does not report anything )

    $ bzr branches http://bzr.savannah.nongnu.org/r/gnewsense
    http://bzr.savannah.nongnu.org/r/gnewsense/ is permanently redirected to 
http+urllib://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnewsense/

    $ bzr branches http+urllib://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/gnewsense/
    ( does not report anything )

> > 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.

The GNU Savannah website says this when looking at a BZR project:
"
For a repository with separate branch directories (trunk, devel, …), use:
 *bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.nongnu.org/gnewsense/branch
where branch is the name of the branch you want.

For a repository with only a top-level .bzr directory, use:
 * bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.nongnu.org/gnewsense
"

So the second option is not used in real projects ? It's safe to assume there's 
always a branch ?


> > 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.

That's always true :)
But the current situation is that I'm paying for this VM myself and that's what 
I have, and I was hoping to be able to do these tasks on this machine.