Latency leading to very very long pull times

[Aaron Bentley]

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Andrew King wrote:
> On 7/19/07, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> Andrew King wrote:
> You might want to consider upgrading to Branch6
> (--format=dirstate-tags), since
> that format maintains a single 'last_revision' field, rather than a
> list of all
> revisions in 'revision-history'.
> 
>> how do we do this

bzr upgrade --dirstate-tags

>, and what are the implications?

You may need to remove old push locations from your locations.conf.  It
is incompatible with Bazaar 0.14 and earlier.

> Is it stable?

Yes.  It will probably be the default format in 0.19.

>> One thing you could try is using merge directives instead of a branch.
>> Since they're single files, they shouldn't take as long to download.
> 
> 
>> how do we do this aaron? do you mean just type bzr merge instead of bzr
>> pull?

No.  To generate a merge directive, you run "bzr submit REMOTE_BRANCH -o
FILENAME".  This produces a file called a "merge directive".  People can
pull or merge this file instead of pulling or merging the branch,

Aaron
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