From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: henry atting Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: bazaar question Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:15:48 +0100 Organization: literaturlatenight Message-ID: <87mxzzajdn.fsf@online.de> References: <87tyu87du2.fsf@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264592473 23852 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2010 11:41:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:41:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 27 12:41:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Na6G5-0003cw-D9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:40:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53310 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Na6G6-0002OO-QS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:40:30 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Injection-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:15:47 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: feeder.eternal-september.org; posting-host="CrucOyTrV0wq69BnyBa2CQ"; logging-data="30069"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18cmXRsIETgep+k6pyPEqIH" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XR44bZ6z3FFMCO5Bp+OVtnecD54= sha1:ANRN/qhAVUAW5ZHXGs3Sq2PJiuo= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176438 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71509 Archived-At: On Mi, Jan 27 2010, Óscar Fuentes wrote: > Lennart Borgman writes: > >>> Tried it with `bazaar branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk/' >>> but stopped, unpatiently, after 20 minutes. >>> Is this the only way to get the latest source? >> >> >> You can get them from Launchpad too. That is faster since they have >> installed the bazaar fast server (or what it is called). >> >> bzr branch lp:emacs trunk > > The smart server works only if you have a Launchpad account and imported > a public ssh key there. Otherwise, it uses the http transport, the same > Savannah serves. > > Using the smart server saves a few minutes (more if you are using a slow > machine). > > I don't recommend a lightweight branch. The initial download is > something you need to do only once, and if you want to work on more than > one machine, you can clone your bzr branch from one to another without > downloading again from Savannah. Plus, most version control operations > on a lightweight branch over http are *very* slow, except perhaps > `update', which is about the same. I decided against a lightweight branch. Ddon't know if it was really faster (I don't have a launchpad account), maybe some minutes. Anyway, the crucial fact that helped me keeping up was the care of this group :) Thanks henry -- http://literaturlatenight.de