Performance of bzr update for lightweight checkout

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 20:20:57 +0100
> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm at gentoo.org>
> Cc: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> 
> We'd love to do so, but the time needed for the initial (heavyweight)
> checkout seems prohibitive:
> 
>    $ date; bzr checkout bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/ emacs-test; date
>    Fri Feb  4 18:21:11 CET 2011
>    Fri Feb  4 19:58:06 CET 2011
> 
> That's 97 minutes (and I did this test at work, with a fast network
> connection).

It was around 50 min for me, but it's a one-time investment.
Thereafter, each "bzr update" takes much less time, usually around 30
sec (assuming you sync at least once a day).  So it's worth your
while.