bzr speed

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 18:58 -0800, Diwaker Gupta wrote:
> Two days back I did a 'bzr branch' on the main bzr.dev branch. I was
> on a reasonably fast cable line, and it took *more than one hour* for
> the operation to finish.

What bzr were you using ? If you where using 0.7 its largely fixed in
bzr.dev itself.

> The equivalent operation on mercurial's main brach ('hg clone') took
> around 1 minute.
> 
> Is this is a known problem?

Yes

>  Being worked on? 

Yes. We have improvements in bzr.dev, and we have the versionedfile
branch been aimed at as a priority, which makes the time approximately
the same as hg.

> I'm personally biased in
> favor of bzr, but I really like mercurial as well. At the very least,
> I'd love to bzr being as fast as mercurial (I'm not that worried about
> functionality, I think both already do more than what I need).

Rob

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