Suggestion: downloading bzr.dev for 'brach --basis'

[Marcos Chaves]

Hi Aaron,

On 11/11/06, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Why would you want a tarball instead of rsyncing?

I was thinking first about Windows. On Unix, rsync usually is "already
there", or can be easily installed. On win, I googled a while and
didn't like the options I found, so switched to Linux, run rsync, tar,
gzip, copy to win, go back, ungzip, untar, and than I could run
"branch --basis". This all to try to play around with bzr on win.

But even if rsync is available, maybe speed could be an answer, not
sure. I was just trying to figure out what could make the creation of
any initial branches easier. After downloading 45 MB with rsync, I
think that I need to keep a copy of that dir in a safe place, just in
case I need i again later.

Or maybe I'm just don't know how to create my local branch. As I
understood (I'm just beginning to play around with distributed RCS) I
can't get something like "give just the last 3-month-worh of
revisions", which could make me download less code. The lightweight
checkout don't seem to be what I wanted too if I want local access to
at least some revisions.

-Marcos