Slow startup?

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 21:48 -0400, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 11:39 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > 
> >>Thanks for the report.
> >>
> >>I've taken out the fqdn call and now just use gethostname, which should
> >>be reliably fast.  I also take a username from ~/.bzr.email if it
> >>exists, which should be easy for people on all platforms to set.
> >>
> >>Having a long real time but a short user+sys is often a dead give away
> >>of a DNS or other network timeout, because it shows the program spends a
> >>long time just waiting.
> > 
> > 
> > it would be good to stash all global config in ~/.bzr, rather than
> > having a bunch of files in ~.
> 
> I agree sticking stuff in a directory in ~ would be nice, but call it 
> something other than .bzr, in case people want to version their home 
> directory.  I know of many people who do that in Subversion or CVS 
> today, and there's no reason to make it impossible when we can easily 
> pick another directory name (.bazaar perhaps).

.bazaar is fine by me - it steps along the convergence of baz and bzr
path too. 

Interesting idea though: use .bzr deliberately, with file names chosen
so that they can be used in any tree to override defaults, and thus when
you are versioning ~ you are also supplying defaults to other trees ;).

Rob

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