Excessive network traffic for pulling a small change

[Colin D Bennett]

Apparently the user was using HTTP, but has now tried HTTPS to the
Launchpad mirror with similarly unreasonable amounts of network
overhead (2.1 MB transferred for a change of only a couple lines).

Another user, David Miller, also complains about Bazaar's network
performance in this thread, writing:

> I've simply stopped trying to work on grub after the
> transition to bzr, using it is just too painful.

Regards,
Colin


Begin forwarded message:

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:20:42 +0530
From: "KESHAV P.R." <skodabenz at gmail.com>
To: grub-devel <grub-devel at gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GIT mirror of BZR repo


I changed .bzr/branch/branch.conf

parent_location = http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub/

to

parent_location = https://code.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/grub/grub2-bzr

Response time is faster but the amount of data downloaded is way too
much for the size of the patch, downloaded 2100 KB for updating from
rev 2250 to 2251. I use bzr only for grub2 repo. If u guys have any
plans for a git repo (or mirror) , I will be glad to change over to
it.

What exactly is bzr downloading in this 2100 KB apart from this patch ?

[keshav at keshav-laptop grub2_BZR]$ bzr diff -r2250..2251
=== modified file 'ChangeLog'
--- ChangeLog	2010-03-07 22:02:13 +0000
+++ ChangeLog	2010-03-08 22:20:02 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-03-08  Matt Kraai  <kraai at ftbfs.org>
+
+	* util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c (setup): Fix a grammatical error
(Debian
+	bug #559005).
+
 2010-03-07  Vladimir Serbinenko  <phcoder at gmail.com>

 	* genmoddep.awk: Output all missing symbols and not only first.

=== modified file 'util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c'
--- util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c	2010-01-16 00:39:14 +0000
+++ util/i386/pc/grub-setup.c	2010-03-08 22:20:02 +0000
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@

   grub_util_warn (_("Embedding is not possible.  GRUB can only be
installed in this "
 		    "setup by using blocklists.  However, blocklists
   are UNRELIABLE and "
-		    "its use is discouraged."));
+		    "their use is discouraged."));
   if (! force)
     grub_util_error (_("if you really want blocklists, use --force"));


[keshav at keshav-laptop grub2_BZR]$


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