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

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Óscar,

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:59:10PM +0100, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:

> > Hi, all,

> > Having created a local copy of the bzr repository in my directory
> > ~/emacs/emacs.bzr/trunk, I then went to create the now familiar
> > quickfixes branch from it, with this command:

> >     $ time bzr branch emacs.bzr/trunk/ quickfixes/

> > .  This took over 39 minutes at 100% CPU usage.  For comparison, a full
> > build on my machine takes ~33 minutes.

> > What on Earth is going on here?  Surely creating a branch (which,
> > essentially, is just copying or linking files) should take at most a few
> > seconds.

> > Is there some configuration setting (or something) I've missed?

> If you followed the recommended setup, your quickfixes/ branch should be
> created within emacs.bzr/, which is the shared repo. Branching within a
> shared repo is much faster because the new branch shares its history
> with the previous one and the required time is reduced to creating the
> working tree (the files you edit). Try it.

Ah, right.  The .../quickfixes/ needs to be physically under .../trunk,
not just "related" to it.  Thanks!

But it still feels a bit strange that creating a branch in the "wrong"
place takes up 39 minutes of processing.

> -- 
> Óscar

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).