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

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Matt Nordhoff wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Are you going to keep a pack-0.92 copy around, like was done with
> <http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev.knits/> during the knit -> pack upgrade?

Well, there seems to be:

http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/backup.bzr/repository

I haven't heard a specific plan to keep a continual mirror going. It
would be pretty easy to set up, though.

John
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