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Re: bazaar question
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henry atting |
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Re: bazaar question |
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Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:15:48 +0100 |
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On Mi, Jan 27 2010, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Tried it with `bazaar branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk/'
>>> but stopped, unpatiently, after 20 minutes.
>>> Is this the only way to get the latest source?
>>
>>
>> You can get them from Launchpad too. That is faster since they have
>> installed the bazaar fast server (or what it is called).
>>
>> bzr branch lp:emacs trunk
>
> The smart server works only if you have a Launchpad account and imported
> a public ssh key there. Otherwise, it uses the http transport, the same
> Savannah serves.
>
> Using the smart server saves a few minutes (more if you are using a slow
> machine).
>
> I don't recommend a lightweight branch. The initial download is
> something you need to do only once, and if you want to work on more than
> one machine, you can clone your bzr branch from one to another without
> downloading again from Savannah. Plus, most version control operations
> on a lightweight branch over http are *very* slow, except perhaps
> `update', which is about the same.
I decided against a lightweight branch.
Ddon't know if it was really faster (I don't have a launchpad account),
maybe some minutes. Anyway, the crucial fact that helped me keeping up was
the care of this group :)
Thanks
henry
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Re: bazaar question, David Engster, 2010/01/26