On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:55:54 +0200
Christian Faulhammer <fa...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Harley Peters <har...@thepetersclan.net>:
> > Since I did a full checkout with the EBZR_FETCH_CMD="bzr checkout"
> > it now deletes the entire previous checked out branch (to save disk
> > space ?) and proceeds to fetch the entire source again.
> > Why would I ever want to do that ? The whole point of bzr is to save
> > bandwidth not disk space. Is there a way arouund this ?
> 
>  You can add a modified bzr.eclass to a local overlay which will
> shadow the one from the Portage tree.  This idea was born because
> initial checkouts are/were incredibly slow, so give first time users
> a better first experience and not let them wait 20 minutes (what
> happened with the Emacs repository).
> 
> V-Li
> 

Ok that's what I am doing. Was just wondering if there was something
simple I over looked.


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