Determining the repository format of a remote repo...

[John Arbash Meinel]

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John Szakmeister wrote:
> I did what I thought was the obvious thing and ran:
>     bzr info lp:trac-backlog -v
> 
> and got the following output:
> 
> Standalone branch (format: unnamed)
> Location:
>   branch root: bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~trac-backlog-team/trac-backlog/trunk/
> 
> Related branches:
>   parent branch:
> bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ejszakmeister/%2Bjunk/trac-backlog/
> 
> Format:
>        control: bzr remote bzrdir
>         branch: Remote BZR Branch
>     repository: bzr remote repository
> 
> Branch history:
>         36 revisions
>         55 days old
>    first revision: Wed 2009-08-05 10:24:28 -0400
>   latest revision: Tue 2009-09-22 13:24:11 -0400
> 
> Repository:
>         37 revisions
> 
> 
> There is some useful information there, but the format block is almost
> completely useless.  Is there some other command I should be using to
> determine the format of a remote repo?  I'd like to avoid the overhead
> of converting one format into another, and I'd also like to make sure
> that a number of my branches are in the '2a' format.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -John

At the moment, switch to 'sftp://' urls should help

bzr info -v \
  sftp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~trac-backlog-team/trac-backlog/trunk/

Standalone branch (format: 2a)
Location:
  branch root:
sftp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~trac-backlog-team/trac-backlog/trunk/

Related branches:
  public branch:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~trac-backlog-team/trac-backlog/trunk
  parent branch: lp-hosted:///%7Ejszakmeister/%2Bjunk/trac-backlog/

Format:
       control: Meta directory format 1
        branch: Branch format 7
    repository: Repository format 2a - rich roots, group compression and
chk inventories

Branch history:
        36 revisions
        56 days old
   first revision: Wed 2009-08-05 10:24:28 -0400
  latest revision: Tue 2009-09-22 13:24:11 -0400

Repository:
        37 revisions

Though probably you could just do "bzr info sftp://..."

Standalone branch (format: 2a)
Location:
  branch root:
sftp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~trac-backlog-team/trac-backlog/trunk/

Related branches:
  public branch:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~trac-backlog-team/trac-backlog/trunk
  parent branch: lp-hosted:///%7Ejszakmeister/%2Bjunk/trac-backlog/


It certainly completes much faster.
John
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