"bzr tags -r NNN" runs forever

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed 21 Sep 2011 19:17:03 CEST, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:58:54 +0200
>> From: Jelmer Vernooij <vernooi1 at xs4all.nl>
>> CC: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
>>
>> On Wed 21 Sep 2011 06:53:50 PM CEST, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Well, not really forever: I killed it after 12 minutes.  But just
>>> "bzr tags" without revision spec finishes in 30 sec.  Is it a bug or
>>> did I misunderstand what this switch does?
>> Hmm, I'm not entirely sure what that flag would do given tags in bzr 
>> are not versioned. What did you expect it to do?
> Show the tag, if any, in the given revision or range of revisions.
> But that's not based on anything, since the documentation doesn't tell
> anything about the effect of this switch.
That is indeed what it does, but it probably has to scan history in 
order to find that data which can take some time. Then again, 30s is 
also a very long time for "bzr tags" without arguments. Are you running 
this on a local or a remote branch?

Cheers,

Jelmer