Some unscientific timing results (on the Python source tree)

[Russel Winder]

Neil,

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:38 +0000, Neil Martinsen-Burrell wrote:
> Russel Winder <russel.winder <at> concertant.com> writes:
> 
>  
> > Where does sftp:// fit into all this?  Is it the same as bzr+ssh:// ?
> > 
> > I had assumed sftp was the right way of working where SSH access was
> > available but maybe that was a wrong assumption?
> 
> sftp:// is another one of the "dumb" protocols that Bazaar supports.  Quoting
> the User Guide: "We describe HTTP, FTP, SFTP and HTTP-WebDAV as "dumb" servers
> because they do not offer any assistance to Bazaar."  So, performance over SFTP
> is generally worse than over bzr+ssh:// because it doesn't support special
> purpose verbs that the smart server (the "bzr+" part) does support.  I find
> working over bzr+ssh to be a much more pleasant experience than over sftp. 
> Although, for small changes, I find that the time to authenticate over SSH seems
> to be the limiting factor for e.g. commits on checkouts.  This time for
> authentication should be the same for sftp or bzr+ssh.

I had missed bzr+ssh: somewhere along the line.  The above argument
sounds like a very good reason to drop using sftp: and always use bzr
+ssh:

Thanks.

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