yet another dvcs shootout (this time python-devel)

[Daniel Watkins]

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 23:57 +0000, Paul Moore wrote:
> So bzr branch is 9x slower than a simple directory copy (is bzr like
> Mercurial, where a directory copy is a working clone, as long as there
> are no concurrent users of the branch when you are copying?).
If it's a standalone branch, then you can just copy it.  However, if it
uses a shared repository, then just copying it will only work if it can
still find the shared repository (i.e. if the shared repo is the
first .bzr directory it finds when it recurses upwards).


Dan