Why does Bazaar download so much data for a small change?

[Ben Finney]

Andrew Cowie <andrew at operationaldynamics.com> writes:

> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 20:38 +0100, Nicholas Allen wrote:
> 
> > Seeing as the user may pull from this when first trying out Bazaar
> 
> In fairness, I wouldn't really expect that the first project that
> someone would checkout with a freshly installed bzr package would be
> the bzr sources - most people are usually fairly high up the
> sophistication curve before they need to checkout the sources to
> their version control tool.

Indeed. I've been using Bazaar as my primary VCS for years now, and
have never wanted to pull from the Bazaar source branches.

I think “people trying out Bazaar” are going to be doing one of two
things: branching from an existing repository they're interested in
run by someone else that just happens to use Bazaar, or making their
own new repository to track an existing working tree.

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Ben Finney