[MERGE] Make 'bzr upgrade' work over HPSS.

[Andrew Bennetts]

Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 25.07.2008, 13:14 +1000 schrieb Andrew Bennetts:
> > This is a quick patch to make 'bzr upgrade' work over HPSS.  It does the bare
> > minimum necessary to let it work over VFS operations.  So it'll probably be
> > roughly as slow as doing an upgrade over e.g. SFTP.
> > 
> > I haven't tested it thoroughly yet, but it's pretty simple.
> Any chance this can make it into 1.6 ? bzr as of 1.6 is whining about
> some of my branches on remote servers being in an old format, but
> upgrading over sftp:// is a real pain.

Well, this patch won't really ease the pain much; the client still does all the
work, so it won't be significantly faster than sftp://.

1.6 is a huge release, and late.  I'm not going to push more stuff into it if I
can help it.  This patch is mildly nice-to-have, pretty low risk, but I'm loathe
to do anything even vaguely destabilising that might further delay 1.6.

I'm strongly in favour of us getting back on the monthly schedule for 1.7 so we
don't end up in the “just one more feature because I don't want to wait a whole
release period” trap again, even for the really big features.

-Andrew.