Fwd: fetching size increase rapidly...

[Ben Finney]

Michael Andronov <michael_andronov at sd-kyber.com> writes:

> If I have  bzr installed on 'remote' side, then the preferred way to
> communicate would be
>  bzr+ssh://.....
> That would save me some transmission payload ( and time as result).
> Plus, probably, increase the robustness of the whole system.

Yes and yes. It will give you a very significant improvement in both
speed and data transfer. This is known as the “smart server” approach:
Bazaar as a client can speak a Bazaar-specific protocol to the remote
system, which acts as a Bazaar server (even though both are ‘bzr’).

Bazaar is very flexible in that it *can* use so-called “dumb server”
protocols, but these are much slower since the client must perform
everything as a file operation on the remote server. That's why you're
seeing very large data transfer in these modes.

> Interesting. And thanks a lot for pointing that out.
> ( I've read the user manual... But obviously, I have to re-read it
> again ... paying more attention to details... ;)).

Your experience is that of a newcomer, and we old hands can never be
that again. So let me get something valuable from you: now that you know
the above information, where would you have expected that to be in the
documentation so that you could find it at the time when it would have
been useful?

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Ben Finney