bzr.dev rsync copy is broken?

[William Dode]

On 27-03-2006, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>
> William Dode wrote:
>> On 27-03-2006, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> 
>>>William Dode wrote:
>>>| On 25-03-2006, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>>>|
>>>|>The only thing that's wrong is that they should delete the working
>>>|>tree if they're not updating up.
>>>|
>>>|
>>>| It means that it's not more possible to use rsync for people who have
>>>| not bazaar. Maybe it's better to remove the rsync line of the
>>>| OfficialDownloads page of the wiki ?
>>>
>>>I don't see why we'd remove the rsync one and keep the
>>>http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev one.
>> 
>> 
>> Because when we use rsync we have a broken tree...
>
> I thought you were saying we should remove it because it only is useful
> for people who already have bzr.  But it is not the only thing on that
> page that is only useful for people who already have bzr.
>
> For people who have bzr, it is a valid branch, and it is very useful to
> be able to get an exact copy of that branch.  It is much faster to make
> an rsync copy and do a checkout from that than it is to download a fresh
> copy of bzr.dev via http.

I understand, then it should be written "don't forget to do a bzr
revert..."

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