Comment 5 for bug 197429

> How do I find out?

Run "bzr info" in your branch directory. You should see something like this:

mbp@lithe% bzr info ~/bzr/trunk
Repository tree (format: pack-0.92)
Location:
  shared repository: /home/mbp/bzr
  repository branch: .

If you do not see the 'shared repository' line, then bzr is having to filter and copy all the content when you branch.

The workflow we suggest is eg

  bzr init ~/mysql
  bzr branch http://......./ ~/mysql/trunk
  cd ~/mysql
  bzr branch trunk my-feature

Then the storage is shared and branch should be much faster.