Switch from SVN to xxx ?

[Paul Moore]

On 3 June 2010 18:19, Parth Malwankar <parth.malwankar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> wrote:
>> Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au> writes:
>>
>
>>> * Many different remote repository options, including HTTP and SFTP for
>>>   publishing without any requirement for Bazaar on the server.
>>
>> I think you should mention that the Emacs developers have found this to
>> be quite inefficient. See the big threads here:
>>
>>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/123325/
>>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/123196/
>>
>
> HTTP and SFTP are dumb protcols and are expected to be slower
> than smart server. Its unfortunate that savannah does not support
> smart server for bzr (yet!).
>
> That said, I consider SFTP and HTTP an important feature.
> There have been situations when the only access I had to a server
> was SFTP. As bzr supported SFTP I was able to use it with such
> servers. SFTP being slower than smart server hardly matter if you
> don't have permissions to install stuff on the server.

Mercurial supports static HTTP (for read only, I assume bzr is the same).

Paul.