Downloader for Launchpad?

Question

When downloading a branch on launchpad (it's big) I get a connection reset by peer error. I'm wondering is there a downloader for launchpad? Also if there's is a resume function it would be awesome. I'm using bzr on the command line BTW.

Thanks in advance!

P.S. I'm using Ubuntu

Answer 1

Some projects may offer a tarball of the main branch for download. Otherwise you should try to only get a couple of revisions at a time eg.

bzr branch -r100 lp:<project>
cd <project>
bzr pull -r200

etc. It will be nice to fix/automate this one day. Bazaar will always keep what it successfully downloaded, but sometimes it may try to get too much at a time for some networks.

Answer 2

You could use a history-less lightweight checkout:

bzr checkout --lightweight lp:<project>

More details in the Bazaar docs.