"bzr tags -r NNN" runs forever

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> writes:

    >> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:27:19 +0200
    >> From: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
    >> CC: bazaar at lists.canonical.com, Jelmer Vernooij <vernooi1 at xs4all.nl>
    >> 
    >> > 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.

    > If it takes 30 sec to find all the tags, how come it takes many
    > minutes (at least 12) to find tags for a single revision?

Because it starts all over again for each tag, it's a bug. It's
noticeable on bzr itself once you specify a revision or a revision range
(truth is I never did that and looking at the annotations, the bug is
there since ages :-/).

Thanks for spotting it Eli,

           Vincent