Andrew McDonnell <bugs@andrewmcdonnell.net> writes:
Being used to SVN and git, I am still finding my way around bzr, and finding it incredibly slow executing `bzr branch lp:maria`. I am not sure whether it is just me, but I am finding the kB/s is a long way below my connection speed.
It is not just you. Bzr is incredibly slow and CPU/memory hungry :-( It used to be far worse, I have seen initial checkout taking 40 hours (yes, *fourty* *hours*) of CPU time and 2GB ram to complete. Now I think it is down to one or two hours or so on a fast machine, though memory usage is probably still high. We're mostly stuck with bzr for now for legacy reasons. Fortunately, speed is tolerable with a shared repo once initial checkout is complete.
starting tarball instead, except that all the links on the page
http://askmonty.org/wiki/MariaDB:Download:Shared_Repo
seem to be broken? Is the tar.gz shared repo information still valid?
I've Cc'ed Daniel, who may be able to fix that. However, it's probably easiest to just create your own empty shared repo, and do the initial checkout overnight or something. Thanks for the notice, and good luck! - Kristian.