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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