How to resume a bzr checkout from a SVN repository?

[Dietrich Bollmann]

[NOTE] I sent the following answer only to Jelmer's private address.
Reposting it to the list...
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Hi Jelmer,

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 15:53 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
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> Dietrich Bollmann wrote:
> > I am trying to check out a SVN repository with 'bzr checkout ...'
> > The command is running since hours and only half of the revisions
> > have been checked out until now.  I have to leave now and would
> > like to interrupt the command and resume it tomorrow.  But I
> > couldn't find any explanation how to resume a bzr checkout...
> There is an open bug about supporting this, but it is not possible at
> the moment. Personally, I would consider this a 2.0 blocker since
> everybody seems to run into it at one point or another.
> 
> A workaround is to create a shared repository and create your checkout
> inside of that. If the checkout fails halfway through you can remove
> the checkout and restart it without refetching all data.

So I have to start over from the beginning again.  This time I will use
you workaround.  Thanks a lot!

The checkout is so slow that a resume would definitely by nice.

Cheers, Dietrich

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jelmer


[ANOTHER NOTE :)] I actually didn't leave and let the computer run until
everything was finished without further problems...  So I will try the
fix the next time I check out something...