Excessive network traffic for pulling a small change

[Stefan Monnier]

> If someone is behind a small-band network connection it's a good idea
> to use  lightweight checkouts instead of complete branches with full
> history. Only the  most recent changes are transfered much like
> subversion does.

>   bzr checkout --lightweight bzr+ssh://domain/branch

lightweight checkout might be a good idea for a simple checkout
operation, but we're talking here about updating a preexisting branch,
in which case the lightweight-checkout is not going to be any better
(it's likely to be worse, actually).


        Stefan