From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Locks on the Bzr repository Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:56:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4C6D56DB.7040703@swipnet.se> <4C6D8EC5.7040901@swipnet.se> <4C6E1F0A.7070506@swipnet.se> <837hjlr78p.fsf@gnu.org> <87zkwhtws5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83tymppj62.fsf@gnu.org> <871v9t8klf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83lj81pazq.fsf@gnu.org> <83aaogpcbu.fsf@gnu.org> <87vd737pxd.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83occvohxc.fsf@gnu.org> <87sk276sw3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282463783 29878 80.91.229.12 (22 Aug 2010 07:56:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sdl.web@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 22 09:56:22 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1On5Pg-00041a-Lr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:56:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1On5Pc-00030Z-C8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:56:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52292 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1On5PX-00030O-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:56:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1On5PW-0004b5-6i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:56:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:39763) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1On5PV-0004b0-UE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:56:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1On5PU-00025A-T3; Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:56:08 -0400 In-reply-to: <87sk276sw3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129011 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: Leo , > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:52:44 +0900 > > > If not, how do you cope with the bootstrap of a new branch, which > > takes much longer than writing a string to a file? > > It doesn't take very long to create a new branch in a separate > workspace. It takes the time it takes to unpack a source tarball if > you do it sanely. I was talking about bootstrapping, not about branch creation. > I just don't hesitate to do these operations in git or hg. I hesitate > to even think about them in bzr or darcs. I just tried to make a local branch out of the Emacs trunk mirror. It took 22 seconds on x86_64 GNU/Linux. Probably not as fast as git, but fast enough to be a non-issue.