> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:30:19 -0400 > From: Assaf Gordon <assafgor...@gmail.com> > CC: richard.wil...@gmail.com, savannah-hackers-public@gnu.org > > > The command is "bzr branches". > > I can't get this to work - perhaps I'm using an incorrect URL ?
Which version of bzr do you have? I think there's a built-in command in latest bzr versions that shadows the one I meant. > > There's no such thing, AFAIK: each bzr project includes at least one > > branch. > > The GNU Savannah website says this when looking at a BZR project: > " > For a repository with separate branch directories (trunk, devel, …), use: > *bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.nongnu.org/gnewsense/branch > where branch is the name of the branch you want. > > For a repository with only a top-level .bzr directory, use: > * bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.nongnu.org/gnewsense > " > > So the second option is not used in real projects ? It's safe to assume > there's always a branch ? No, it is used. The first option has several branches under a parent directory that is the shared repo, and stores revisions that are common to all branches. IOW, it's a storage optimization; e.g., when you clone another branch, only the versions specific to that branch will be brought downstream. The second option is a stand-alone branch, with no repo above it. But in both options, there's at least one branch. > >> I seem to have problems cloning a large repository on a virtual machine > >> with limited RAM (512MB, but likely ~380MB free). > >> For example, when trying to clone the emacs repository at > >> "http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/";, > >> I get a lot of "Killed" messages (I guess due to OOM), and the clone fails. > > > > You need more RAM. > > That's always true :) > But the current situation is that I'm paying for this VM myself and that's > what I have, and I was hoping to be able to do these tasks on this machine. My Emacs repo holds 480MB of meta-data, and I think bzr needs at least that much to clone it. I'd say you need 0.5GB available VM to do this (only the first time you clone it).
