[MERGE] Add a 'nosmart+' transport decorator.

Ian Clatworthy ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net
Thu Apr 3 02:10:28 BST 2008


Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> (This is related to bug 207558.)
> 
> Now that bzr.dev automatically probes for a smart server on plain HTTP URLs,
> it's occasionally useful to be able to disable the probing and force bzr to use
> plain HTTP (for instance for debugging, benchmarking, or simply to workaround a
> misconfigured smart server).  This patch achieves this by adding a 'nosmart+'
> transport decorator.  So you could do e.g.:
> 
>      bzr branch nosmart+http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr/trunk

bb:approve

> I'm not sure that "nosmart" is the best possible prefix for this, but "nobzr"
> somehow didn't feel right.  Comments welcome.

The other suggestions I've seen (plain, dumb) are ok. I prefer nosmart
though because it stresses the opt-out aspect of this, while plain/dumb
would suggest opt-in to me.

Ian C.



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