[RFC] killing versioned file.join

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 16:48 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> All other things being equal having just one way to fetch is better than two.
> 
> Is going to data stream and back possibly going to be slower for local
> fetching than just operating on the objects directly?
> 
> The general rule is that the server should be newer than the client;
> at any rate it needs to understand the on-disk formats the client
> uses.  So I would tend to have the client say "send me a data stream
> that fits repository X" and the server should do the right annotation,
> ordering, and other things.

People routinely run bzr in both client-newer and client-older forms.
Because of this asking for 'repository X' does not work  well.

-Rob

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