bzr speed

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 22:27 -0800, Diwaker Gupta wrote:
> On 2/7/06, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I was indeed using bzr 0.7. After my pull yesterday, I installed bzr
> from bzr.dev and 'bzr version' now reports 0.8pre. So I thought I'll
> do a clean pull again today -- it still took MORE than an hour.

The bulk of the time (I just tested myself) is in copying the individual
revision files. The versioned file branch combines them into one knit,
along with their signatures in another knit, so this should become
extremely fast.

Rob

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