Code review comment for lp:~craighewetson-deactivatedaccount/bzr-search/index-fileids

On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 08:38 +0000, Craig Hewetson wrote:
> Hi Rob
>
> I'm using pack-0.92. Until bzr 2.0 is released I suppose I can't use the 2a format. The branches I'm working on are not for personal use but are being actively used within the company I work for.
>
> The senior developers are sceptical about using bazaar and now that they where "forced" to use it, I got complaints about bzr qlog <dir> taking too long. Also if I tell them to install a release candidate it won't go down well.
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> I suppose as soon as bzr 2.0 is released I can upgrade all their bazaar installations and upgrade our existing shared repository and branches to make use of 2a. Just hope its not going to be a mission.
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>
> I'll ditch this branch in the hope that upgrading to 2a will greatly improve the performance of bzr log <dir>

What you can do now is on a test machine do some testing:
 - install 2.0.0rc2 (this is what 2.0.0 will be - no further changes are
being made)
 - convert a spare branch
 - test performance
 - *file bugs* in bzr on this.

I think its a good idea you had to use bzr-search to workaround bzr's
performance in this area; however 2a should be capable of being
extremely fast - if its not, it should be something we can do in a point
release, and I know that folk are interested in this.

-Rob