Re: Switching to bzr: what Emacs developers should know?

[Stefan Monnier]

>   100%[======================================>] 233,333,654 1.90M/s in 66s
>   100%[======================================>] 230,333,027 3.65M/s in 77s
                                                              ^^^^^^^
LOL

>   bzr branch bzr://...       ==>  47 minutes
>   bzr branch http://...      ==>  10 minutes
>   wget http:/.../{gz,lzma}   ==>   1 minute

If you couple that with the measurement for "bzr branch" locally between
two separate repositories, maybe the Bzr guys will be interested to look
at it.  I think they already know about those performance problems, but
it's always good to remind them that they're still not solved
(especially the bulk transfer over `bzr' SHOULD be at least as fast
as over http).

>   $ wget http://bzr.savanna.gnu.org/.../emacs-shared-repos.gz
>   $ tar zxvf emacs-shared-repos.gz
>   $ cd emacs-shared-repos            (or whatever it's called)
>   $ cd trunk
>   $ bzr pull                         (pull down new revs into trunk)
>   $ bzr branch trunk my-branch       (start working by branching trunk)

> Seem sane to you?

Yes, of course.  Not just to save download time, but also because it
then automatically sets up a shared repository, which is the sanest way
to work with Bzr, in my experience.


        Stefan


PS: Seeing that there's virtually no size difference between
emacs-testing.tar.gz and emacs-testing.tar.lzma, I don't se the need to
keep them both.  And I also wonder if emacs-testing.tar wouldn't work
just as well.