bzr-svn fetching all revisions even though -r 500 passed to branch command

[Nicholas Allen]

Hi,

I tried branching our subversion repository with bzr-svn. I know there 
is a memory usage issue with the subversion libraries so I tried the 
workaround previously mentioned of passing -r 500 to the branch command. 
bzr-svn still tried to fetch all subversion revisions even though I 
passed this option and of course my computer ran out of memory. This 
means that it is currently impossible to branch any reasonable sized svn 
repo. As a workaround I can ctrl-c it every 2000 revisions and then 
start it again and it seems to carry on where it left off.

Is there a better way to do this? Would it be possible to code a 
workaround in bzr-svn so that it only fetches revisions in blocks of 500 
or so to get around the svn memory leaks?

Nick