Bzr and large repositories

[Martin Pool]

On 26 Oct 2006, Nicholas Allen <nick.allen at onlinehome.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I remember reading a while ago that bzr used huge amounts of memory on 
> large repositories. Is this still the case? We have a very large svn 
> repository (about 40,000 revisions and many Gb in size). Do you think 
> this will be hard for bzr to handle?

That would be hard for bzr 0.12.  We're working on improving Bazaar to
scale up to repositories of that size or larger.

If you can say more about the character of the repository it would be
interesting, such as 

  how many files and directories are there in one version of the source
  tree?

  what's the distribution of individual file sizes - average and
  maximum?

  how many branches, developers, and commits per day?

  how does Subversion do with this load?

-- 
Martin