Best method to pull *fast*?

[Ali Sabil]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Torsten Bronger
<bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hallöchen!
>
> I stay up-to-date with CVS Emacs by pulling from the inofficial
> Bzaar branch.  I don't contribute, I just want to synchronise
> unidirectionally.  However, an ordinary "pull" generates 140 times
> more network traffic than bytes changed on the disk.  In one case, I
> had a diff which was 500 kB big, but "bzr pull" reported to have
> transmitted 80 MB.
>
> Using a lightweight checkout and "update" didn't change much,
> however, I haven't really benchmarked it yet.
>
> Is there a faster way?
>

Did you try to use the launchpad mirror (bzr pull lp:emacs) ?