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

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 11:51 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> 2009/5/11 Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>:
> > Didn't we do this in the past, and get negative feedback? Users often
> > cannot fix the source to be better...
> 
> I think it's like this:
> 
> One cause of confusion was the rich-root divergence, and poor
> explanation of what was happening, like having incompatible objects
> with similar reprs.
> 
> There should be an option to turn the warning off per location.
> 
> If the transfer is going to be slow, you might as well say so clearly.
>  Not necessarily "you should upgrade" because you may not be able to
> but "I'm converting the data, this may be slower than otherwise."

This sounds reasonable to me.

-Rob

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