easy ui improvement suggestion

[Karl Fogel]

Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> writes:
> I'm hoping someone might pick this up and do the small patch to
> implement it:
>
> At the moment we have a bit of a ui design flaw that if you don't
> create a repository directory and just branch, either from a server or
> locally, it will work just fine, but they won't share storage so it
> will be inefficient.  We should probably fix this by having threads in
> the default branch implementation along the lines discussed by Jelmer.
>
> But as an easy interim improvement that would make it more obvious, we
> could just print a message when we're making a new repository, or
> using a shared repository.  It would give people a clue why it's doing
> more work.
>
> Something like "copying all history to new repository %s"

Hmm, would we not want the message in the reverse case?  That is, if you
create a new branch and don't store it in an existing repository, print
something about how it won't share storage?

I'm a bit skeptical that either is really useful, though.  In the end,
bzr should store efficiently by default and not worry the user with its
under-the-hood details.  I'm not sure what the "along the lines
discussed by Jelmer" is; do you have a thread reference?

-K