Performance of bzr update for lightweight checkout

[Aaron Bentley]

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On 11-02-04 11:57 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> In Gentoo, we have a live ebuild for GNU Emacs that will access their
> repository at savannah.gnu.org. The initial checkout is done with
> "bzr checkout --lightweight" because we don't need any history.

> During the last month I have noticed that on several of my updates
> huge amounts of data, about 700 MB, were transferred.
> Am I doing anything wrong?

Lightweight checkouts are meant for use in high-bandwidth, low-latency
environments, such as LANs or local disk.  It sounds like you should be
using heavyweight checkouts or branches instead.

In order to perform an update, you need history.  Most of the data you
see being transferred will be history data.

Aaron
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