What to do about HPSS protocol backwards compatibility for faster push?

Andrew Bennetts andrew at canonical.com
Thu Oct 18 01:39:54 BST 2007


Robert Collins wrote:
[...]
> 
> I think 4) is useful for some people, but actually likely to cause harm.
> (imagine a client with the config set well after the server was
> upgraded).

Yeah, this is true.  There is a risk that in the long term it would do more harm
than good.

> Our general policy is that latest bzr <-> old bzr will work, but may be
> slower. 
> 
> This situation doesn't seem any different to me than pushing from a pack
> to a knit repository a 10MB project, which will be excruciatingly slow.

That's a very good point.

-Andrew.




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