problems pushing to svn.wp-plugins.org

[Sabin Iacob]

ehlo all

The svn.wp-plugins.org repository is structured like 
/plugin-name/{branches, tags, trunk}, with about 37k revisions.
I am trying to push one of my plug-ins to trunk; I want to push the 
whole history, so I can merge later, so I removed trunk (had about 30-40 
revisions) and created it again, then ran bzr push, which seems to be 
downloading the whole repository's history (right now it reads "finding 
branches 6947/37036"). Is this the intended behaviour? Is it 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-svn/+bug/158657 ?