Lightweight checkouts aren't

[Johan Walles]

I just tried this with Bazaar 1.16.1 and bzr-svn 0.6.3:

bzr init-repo --default-rich-root beagle-repo
cd beagle-repo
bzr checkout --lightweight http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/scm/tags/maven-scm-1.2 apskaft

That seems to download the full history (which takes ages).

The bazaar documentation at http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/user-guide/index.html#getting-a-lightweight-checkout says: "To get a history-less checkout in Bazaar, use the --lightweight option".

I expected --lightweight to make bzr *not* download any history.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

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Hi,

Johan Walles wrote:
> I just tried this with Bazaar 1.16.1 and bzr-svn 0.6.3:
>
> bzr init-repo --default-rich-root beagle-repo cd beagle-repo bzr
> checkout --lightweight
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/scm/tags/maven-scm-1.2
> apskaft
>
> That seems to download the full history (which takes ages).
>
> The bazaar documentation at
> http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/user-
> guide/index.html#getting-a-lightweight-checkout says: "To get a
> history- less checkout in Bazaar, use the --lightweight option".
>
> I expected --lightweight to make bzr *not* download any history.
Thanks for the bug report.

I can't reproduce this problem, these two commands do indeed create
only a checkout for me. While they are slow (139 seconds) that's
mainly due to the remote server being slow and a network trace shows
it's only retrieving the last revision.

If you don't have a cache of the "svn log -v" output of the remote
repository yet bzr-svn may be trying to retrieve that.

Can you try to disable the cache for this particular repository by
adding the following two lines to ~/.bazaar/subversion.conf:

[13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68]
use-cache = False

and check if that works better?

Cheers,

Jelmer

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[Johan Walles (walles)]

Adding use-cache = False to subversion.conf did the trick, the checkout now took only a minute or so compared to me giving up after several hours the last time.

Thanks for the workaround Jelmer!

Background: the reason I wanted to do a lightweight checkout was because an ordinary one seemed to take forever. I reported this bug because the lightweight checkout (which was the only workaround I could come up with by myself) seemed to take forever as well.

  Regards //Johan

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

Marking this report as a dupe of the "greedy cache" bug report, since I don't see any other bugs here.