Why is bzr pull via http soooooo sloooooow?

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:27:46PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:36:16AM +1000 I heard the voice of
> Michael Ellerman, and lo! it spake thus:
> > On 6/13/06, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >Also the number 14 is a little bit misleading. There are only 14
> > >mainline revisions, but it amounts to > 100 total merged revisions.
> > >(The encoding merge itself was > 80 revisions).
> > 
> > Perhaps we should print that as well, so that users aren't left
> > wondering why two pulls that both pull "1 revisions" take vastly
> > different times?
> 
> Well, at one time, we showed the number of total revisions on the
> progress bar while it was happening (and counted up how many we'd
> grabbed; '6/13' etc).  That went away in a round of progress bar
> cleanups and such, but I really miss it; it told me what the actual
> _progress_ was.

I miss that too. Care to bring it back again? :)

Wouter van Heyst