Why does Bazaar download so much data for a small change?

[Martin Pool]

2009/2/5 Matt Nordhoff <mnordhoff at mattnordhoff.com>:
> Nicholas Allen wrote:
>>> So bzr.dev has the ordering fix, but without upgrading the repository,
>>> you would be missing the other half of the fix.
>> I have also noticed this when pulling from bzr.dev branch via http. Is
>> bzr.dev not using the latest repository format?
>>
>> Nick
>
> Right. http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/ is still using the pack-0.92 format.
> There's been discussion about upgrading it, but bzr 1.9 was only
> released 3 months ago, and I don't think a consensus was ever reached.

I think now would be a great time to upgrade it.  I'll ask lifeless or
one of the sysadmins to do it.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>