Re: Surely 'bzr branch' shouldn't be this slow?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Jason Earl <address@hidden> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>>>> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:37:15 +0100
>>>> Cc: address@hidden
>>>>
>>>> Just a comment: I have not even tried yet to use bzr. According to
>>>> what I am reading it looks impossible at the moment.
>>>>
>>>> Am I right or?
>>>
>>> It's both possible and practical.  I use it on 2 different Windows
>>> machines and on 1 GNU/Linux one, and it works quite well.  The initial
>>> "bzr branch" takes a long time, but that's all.
>>
>>
>> And with a 2Mbit/s connection and an Alan style pc, 1GB RAM?
>
> I use it with a netbook with 1GB of Ram and no swap.  It works fine.  I
> will admit that I have switched to pulling from launchpad, but I did my
> initial pull from Savannah.

How long did the initial pull take on this machine? (Sorry if you have
told already. Are the figures perhaps on the wiki?) How fast is your
internet?

And doing the initial pull from Launchpad instead how much faster is it?