how to run `bzr check` only for one branch in shared repo?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:30:39 +0100
> From: Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com>
> Cc: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> 
> 2010/1/29 Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net>:
> > Is it intended behavior that `bzr check` always checks all branches in
> > shared repository regardless of current working dir, and even if I run it
> > inside a branch as `bzr check .` it's anyway checks everything.
> 
> This is the intended behaviour but perhaps there should at least be an
> option to check a single branch.  The basic idea I think is that in
> most cases it's faster to just check the whole repo, though you could
> have cases where the one branch you care about references little data.

Speaking about speed of `bzr check': how much time would you expect it
to take in the Emacs repository (about 110k revisions)?  Last time I
tried this it ran for 30 hours, consuming 100% of one of the CPU
cores, before the sysadmin killed it.  Is this expected?