On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:50:58PM +0530, KESHAV P.R. wrote: > Is it possible to update the GIT repo git://repo.or.cz/grub2.git to be > in sync with BZR repo. Since grub2 changed from svn to bzr it has not > been updated. BZR is very, very slow to update. It downloads about 3 > MB for very few changes.
The git repository was only used before we switched to bzr. To my knowledge, it has not been used since. > These are the changes that bzr did, for which it downloaded 3 MB of > data (for what?). This is a bug in the Savannah hosting service, not in bzr. A fix for it appears to be in progress: https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?107077 Until this is fixed, if you have difficulty with the download size of updates, you can use the bzr mirror on Launchpad, which is updated several times a day: https://code.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/grub/grub2-bzr bzr get lp:grub/grub2 > I connect to net using GPRS and I get only about 3-5 kbps speed. It > took 20 mins to just update from rev 2249 to 2250. What exactly is bzr > downloading for such a small patch? I used "bzr pull" . Git is much > faster, it wouldn't take 30 seconds for git to update download and > update the above patch if grub2 was git repo. It would if git were artificially limited to an inferior transport mechanism the way that bzr currently is on Savannah. Right now, you are not comparing like with like. With sftp, bzr basically ends up forced to redownload much of the branch metadata for every operation; it can do much, much better with bzr+ssh. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
