Emacs Bazaar repository

[Jason Earl]

James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> writes:

> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 23:20 -0600, Jason Earl wrote:
>> Eric Hanchrow <offby1 at blarg.net> writes:
>> 
>> > I tried
>> >
>> >   $ bzr clone http://bzr.notengoamigos.org/emacs/branches/EMACS_22_BASE
>> >
>> > bzr ground for about an hour, using 100% of the CPU, then finally failed with
>> >
>> >     bzr: ERROR: No such file: 'http://bzr.notengoamigos.org/emacs/.bzr/repository/indices/5b5aedf70f9a908bd9b77d5e921f468f.tix'
>> 
>> The process I use to update the Bazaar repository from CVS apparently
>> moves some of the needed pack and index files around.  It's possible
>> that you could go into the directory that was created and do a "bzr
>> pull" and finish the download, but I am not sure if that always works or
>> if I just got lucky one time :).
>
> Hi,
>
> Can you tell us what that process is?
>
> (Apologies if I missed that in previous mails).
>
>> I would suggest that you download the premade repository, cd to the
>> branches directory and then do try your command again.
>> 
>> $ bzr clone http://bzr.notengoamigos.org/emacs/branches/EMACS_22_BASE
>> 
>> This will be *much* faster as it will re use the changesets that trunk
>> and EMACS_22_BASE have in common.  I am going to get in touch with the
>> bazaar mailing lists and see if there is a better way to do what I am
>> doing.  It's possible that using the "smart" server would protect you
>> from this occurrence (I don't know), but the smart server is even slower
>> when checking out these large branches.  Part of that may be the fact
>> that my server is not very powerful and using the smart server puts most
>> of the processing burden on the server end.
>
> If this is caused by what I think it is then the smart server won't
> help unfortunately.
>
> I can recommend that everyone sets up a shared repository for
> themselves (bzr init-repo dir), it will massively reduce disk usage
> and time for some operations.

My original instructions didn't stress using a shared repository, but my
current ones do.  In fact, my current instructions suggest downloading a
premade shared repository.

> You need to do this before creating a branch, and then create the
> branch inside the directory you create (the dir argument to
> init-repo). Then all branches that you create under there will share
> storage where possible.
>
> Jason, did you create these branches in a rich-root-pack format 
> repository, or just pack-0.92 (the default with 1.0 or later)?

I used the default pack-0.92 format.  I honestly wasn't sure which
format was the most appropriate.

Jason