Feedback from evaluation in a corporate environment

[David Ingamells]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 08:20 +0100, David Ingamells wrote:
>
> Thank you for this!
>
>
>   
No problem. It only took me 1m23.968s +0m13.622s + ...   ;-)
>> time bzr checkout bzr+ssh:<path> CVT_checkout
>> real    1m23.968s
>> user    0m30.170s
>> sys     0m2.816s
>>
>> time bzr checkout --lightweight bzr+ssh:<path> CVT_lightweight
>> real    0m13.622s
>> user    0m5.220s
>> sys     0m0.544s
>>
>> Thus a saving of 70 seconds by using lightweight
>>     
>
> Yes. This is a high bandwidth local environment: I really didn't mean
> LAN's when I talked about networks ;).
>   
>   
Which was what my initial point was about. A reader of the forum sees a 
message making a sweeping statement and can't know that it doesn't 
always apply.
> You have 1000 files which is tiny. I suspect that on a 10K or 100K
> branch the ratio would be substantially higher still.
>
> For users on a corporate LAN, lightweight checkouts may work, but over
> the internet I'm still utterly sure that it will be awesomely painful.
> Again though, I'd love to be wrong.
>   
Certainly, over the internet things will be different - but I noticed 
that this discussion thread is headed "... in a corporate environment" :-)
> -Rob
>