"bzr status" in a lightweight checkout

[Martin Pool]

On 10 August 2010 03:10, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:
> In a lightweight checkout, is "bzr status" supposed to access the
> remote repository?  Or do lightweight checkouts have enough
> information locally to provide the status?
>
> I'm asking because someone complained on the Emacs development list
> that their modem LED indicates traffic when they bootstrap Emacs.
> Bootstrapping should not (AFAIK) do any bzr ops except "bzr status"
> when they visit or save files in a versioned directory.
>
> If it turns out that "bzr status" needs to access the repository in
> this case, we should probably fix Emacs to use some other technique to
> report status of versioned files, or maybe not at all, because
> accessing the network every time the user does an entirely local file
> operation is not nice, to say the least.

It probably does need to access the repository if you have pending
(uncommitted) merges, to show their revision data.  Otherwise, I don't
think it should.  If it does, please get a traceback (eg by blocking
access to the repository) and file a bug tagged {emacs performance}.

-- 
Martin