Too much data being downloaded with sftp

[Sowers, Brent - ES]

Thank you, that did the trick.  Using bzr+ssh insteaad of sftp only took 9 megs to branch the repository instead of 430 megs.  I then ran bzr pack on the repository on the server and that got the branch data transfer down to 7 megs.

I would recommend updating the tutorails to show bzr+ssh instead of sftp, I just used sftp because that's what the tutorials showed, like on this page:
http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/latest/en/user-guide/publishing_a_branch.html

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From: martinpool at gmail.com [martinpool at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Martin Pool [mbp at canonical.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 10:56 PM
To: Sowers, Brent - ES
Cc: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
Subject: Re: Too much data being downloaded with sftp

Hi Brent,

The short answer is if at all possible you should install bzr on the
server and use bzr+ssh instead; most of our performance work is now
focussed on that not sftp or ftp.