Q: help for bzr on windows?

[Talden]

>> Follow through...  I uninstalled the TortoiseBzr Overlays (which were
>> installed automatically by the windows installer of bzr) but left bzr
>> installed.  and then installed TortoiseSVN.  This gave me icon overlays
>> after a reboot as expected.  But windows explorer is now so slow that I
>> had to uninstall the overlays again.  A shared repo for me team has
>> about 12,000 files so it makes sense that the overlays could be slow.
>> Fortunately the qbzr tools give us most of what we need already.
>
> Yeah, for better or worse, tbzr looks at the entire tree, rather than only
> the directory being requested.  There was some discussion with the core
> developers about how to best avoid this, but the answer was, basically,
> "don't worry, it will be fine.  TSVN does it because svn sucks and is slow -
> the bzr status is fast so will not be a problem". Although I was skeptical,
> that is where the discussion and implementation was left...

I've installed bzr standalone several times (for the bzr-svn plugin -
fantastic piece of work) - For my work machine, I've had to lobotomise
tortoisebzr every time to get a responsive explorer back (unchecking
all entries didn't seem to be enough). I've left it enabled on my
personal machine because I've been playing with it to see how it's
improving but the pause is painful - at least tortoiseSVN spreads the
pain out...

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Talden