Re: BZR and the bootstrap

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 09/08/2010 19.11, Eli Zaretskii ha scritto:
> > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull"<address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:57:42 +0900
> > Cc: Angelo Graziosi<address@hidden>, address@hidden
> >
> > It's penny-wise and pound-foolish for anybody who is unfamiliar with
> > Bazaar to use lightweight checkouts.  Occasional contributors and beta
> > testers should invest in a full branch, bound or not depending on
> > their use cases.
>
> If it turns out that this is how "bzr status" is supposed to work in
> lightweight checkouts, perhaps VC should refrain from calling that
> command when it detects a lightweight checkout.

Unless someone beats me, I would continue to do what I have always done 
after the migration to BZR system:

$ bzr checkout --lightweight http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk 
emacs-trunk

to be updated with 'bzr up'.

Now, if I want avoiding BZR to be called while bootstrapping, I will do:

$ rsync -av --exclude=.* --delete emacs-trunk/ emacs/

using 'emacs/' as source tree.

Omitting '--lightweight' is good too, but a file '.bzr' of 200M is 
annoying if one wants to save the bzr tree in a tar-ball archive (to be 
used on other systems, for example).

Ciao,
Angelo.