Re: bazaar question

[David Engster]

henry atting <nsmp_01@online.de> writes:
> I find it annoying that I have to grapple with bazaar if I
> want to go on building emacs from source. Do I really have to pull
> the whole emacs tree starting from the first published sources in the
> Roman Empire?
>
> Tried it with `bazaar branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk/'
> but stopped, unpatiently, after 20 minutes.
> Is this the only way to get the latest source?

You can do a lightweight checkout:

bzr checkout -v --lightweight http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk trunk

This takes less than 5min. on my system, fetching roughly 80-90MB of data.

If you don't need any history at all, you can simply get a tar.gz snapshot
from the git mirror:

http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git

-David