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

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 10:35 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> 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.

Didn't we do this in the past, and get negative feedback? Users often
cannot fix the source to be better...

-Rob
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