Re: Basic Bazaar guide for Emacs hackers.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Jason Earl <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  
> address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:28:22 -0500
> 
> >> The history is also needed if you want to do any sort of bzr command,
> >> like bzr log or bzr annotate.
> > As you well know, these go upstream in CVS as well.  So this is not
> > really a loss for people who want a familiar CVS-like setup.
> 
> The performance will usually be significantly worse than with CVS.

Yes, it's slow.  "bzr annotate" in a lightweight checkout takes almost
3 minutes here.  What's worse, it seems to send the entire annotated
source downstream in one big chunk, whereas CVS seemed to send it in
smaller chunks, so if you pipe the output to a pager, as you normally
would, with CVS you could begin reading before the whole file was
received.  (With a local branch, "bzr annotate" takes about 30
seconds, not exactly the speed of light, either.)  "bzr log" takes
about a minute for a lightweight checkout vs 10 seconds for a local
branch.

So I guess if you use annotate and log a lot, then lightweight
checkouts are not for you.