[RFC] Warn when doing slow pull/push because of difference in formats?

[Martin Pool]

2009/5/11 Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at vernstok.nl>:
> I've come across some situations where people who often push to a
> different bzr repository format or pull into a different repository
> format than their upstream branch (e.g. knits to pack-0.92 or
> 1.9-rich-root to development6). Since this means a conversion has to
> be done such pulls/pushes are a lot slower than they would be if the
> two repositories would be in the same format. This incorrectly gives
> users the impression that bzr is slow; they just happen to be
> exercising a slow code path in bzr.
>
> Perhaps some of the more expensive InterRepository implementations can
> warn the user that they're doing a slower push/pull ?

Yes, I think they should.



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