Performance of bzr update for lightweight checkout

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 12:36:52 +0100
> Cc: aaron at aaronbentley.com, bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm at gentoo.org>
> 
> >>>>> On Sat, 05 Feb 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > If you sit behind a very fast connection, I'd expect 10 min, not 97.
> > I got 50 min for a 3Mbps connection.
> 
> For some reason, the average rate was below 100 kB/s for me. When
> watching the progress, the rate sometimes went up to about 2 MB/s,
> but sometimes it even went down to zero.

What is the bandwidth of your link?

> > What URL did you use in the "bzr branch" command?
> 
> Actually, not "branch" but "checkout" (but I guess for the transfer
> time it shouldn't make a difference?).
> 
> Here's the log:
> 
> Fri 2011-02-04 18:21:11 +0100
> 0.255  bazaar version: 2.2.2
> 0.255  bzr arguments: [u'checkout', u'bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/', u'emacs-test']

Well, I use bzr+ssh://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/, but I doubt
if that could make a difference.

Anyway, the important question is how long it takes to you to resync
_after_ the initial checkout (which is known to be slow).