Re: Emacs source snapshots

[chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>]

On May 5, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> We just had a long outage of the Git mirror.  Let's not say it is a
> viable way to obtain Emacs source snapshots.  It's not.
> 
> The Bazaar export command I showed is the best way to get a snapshot of
> the trunk without getting the whole repository, using only Bazaar itself
> without any external dependencies (you only need Bazaar installed).  
> 
> It seems unoptimized currently (so the actual download is large) but at
> least it's guaranteed to work and can be hosted somewhere.
> 
> Ted

The lightweight checkout method I mentioned seems to work without
downloading so much, and gives a working albeit slow history, using 
only bzr.

I just tried it now:

	; bzr checkout --lightweight http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk/
	; du -sk trunk/
	120064	trunk/

for comparison, my normal checkout with history:

	; du -sk trunk .bzr
	120256	trunk
	388052	.bzr
 
For annoying reasons, I didn't capture exactly how much bzr reported 
as downloading, but it seemed to be about 200m.
 
Hope that helps,
*Chad