Why is bzr pull via http soooooo sloooooow?

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:36:16AM +1000 I heard the voice of
Michael Ellerman, and lo! it spake thus:
> On 6/13/06, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> >
> >Also the number 14 is a little bit misleading. There are only 14
> >mainline revisions, but it amounts to > 100 total merged revisions.
> >(The encoding merge itself was > 80 revisions).
> 
> Perhaps we should print that as well, so that users aren't left
> wondering why two pulls that both pull "1 revisions" take vastly
> different times?

Well, at one time, we showed the number of total revisions on the
progress bar while it was happening (and counted up how many we'd
grabbed; '6/13' etc).  That went away in a round of progress bar
cleanups and such, but I really miss it; it told me what the actual
_progress_ was.


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