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Re: bzr repository ready?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: bzr repository ready?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:18:59 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> How should we retrieve it?  The instructions at
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bzr/?group=emacs are wrong.  They say:

Indeed, they are, and there's a good chance those generic instructions
are wrong for every single project using Bzr on savannah (i.e. they
should be changed).

>   Anonymous read-only access
>     bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs

http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs (aka
sftp://<membername>@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/emacs) is the directory
in which we get to play.  Andreas put up his copy of the repository in
an `emacs' subdiretory in there.  But that is just a repository, whereas
`bzr branch' wants a branch within this directory, so you'd need

   bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/emacs/<branch>

where <branch> could be `trunk'.

If you try it, you'll probably die of boredom before it finishes.
So better do an

  scp -r sftp://<membername>@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/emacs/emacs

instead for the initial checkout: that'll be much faster.
Note that

  scp -r sftp://<membername>@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/emacs/emacs/<branch>

will be faster still (even blazingly fast), but won't give you anything
interesting since the actual data for that branch is somewhere under

  scp -r sftp://<membername>@bzr.savannah.gnu.org/srv/bzr/emacs/emacs/.bzr


-- Stefan




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