Comment 2 for bug 882578

Sorry this is such a pain. I'd really like to get to the bottom of this.

Just doing a clone of this branch into a shared repository seems reasonably fast here:

localhost:/tmp/twisted% time bzr branch svn://svn.twistedmatrix.com/svn/Twisted/branches/halfclose-tls-5341
Branched 16035 revisions.
bzr branch svn://svn.twistedmatrix.com/svn/Twisted/branches/halfclose-tls-534 5.50s user 0.22s system 53% cpu 10.641 total

Is this a clone from scratch or into a shared repository?

Can you reproduce this against a remote repository, or just with file:// ?