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Bazaar
Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2009–2023), in 11 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
- 1Simple log command takes 20-30 secondsUnreviewed
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Simple log command takes 20-30 secondsUnreviewed
20092026- Bzr status takes about 2 seconds, too slow for a command prompt2014-11-08
- Bzr blame takes 40-60 seconds to run locally, unusably slow2014-01-02
- Simple 'bzr log' takes 20-30 seconds, painfully slow2010-03-27
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 16 complaints
- Commands are infuriatingly slow to run, making daily use frustrating2023-03-31
- Codebase full of classes whose relations are hard to follow, making plugin writing hard2015-07-16
- Was painfully slow to use, unlike Git2014-11-11
- Still slow and cumbersome to use years later2014-11-08
- Bzr status takes about 2 seconds, too slow for a command prompt2014-11-08
- Its branching model is frustrating and annoying to work with2014-01-02
- Bzr blame takes 40-60 seconds to run locally, unusably slow2014-01-02
- Operations are slow, and that slowness hurts the user experience2014-01-02
- Command line has no clear mapping between commands, arguments and intended actions2014-01-02
- Users on a mailing list constantly complain that bzr misbehaves and need help2010-12-16
- Range syntax A..B is inclusive on both ends, making scripting difficult2010-05-18
- Simple 'bzr log' takes 20-30 seconds, painfully slow2010-03-27
- Commenter finds the version control system very difficult and confusing to use2009-12-28
- Commenter finds Bazaar unusable for working on Emacs source2009-12-28
- UI confuses the commenter; simple tasks are hard to figure out2009-10-06
- Many repository formats make commands behave differently, so everything feels messy2009-04-24