bug#8025: 24.0.50; vc-bzr does not perform initial commit

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:19:47 -0700
> From: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> So, my question is: do I spent the time trying to fix this issue or can 
> we agree to make bzr work like any of the other backends and call its 
> native stat function all the time?

It would be good to at least understand why it fails.  That file is
full of binary nulls, so this could be something specific to Windows.

> Also, does anybody have actual performance numbers that would support 
> keeping this function around?

Can you give performance numbers with the current code in the Emacs
trunk branch?