Accelerating push via bzr:// and friends

[Michael Hudson]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Robert Collins wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 11:20 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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>>> Aaron Bentley wrote:
>>>> Well, there are several things.  One is that heads is going really
>>>> deep-- when I was pushing a branch of Launchpad, it got back into the
>>>> arch-imported history.
>>> I just re-did this push and it turns out the branch was diverged.  So
>>> the reduced performance I saw may be specific to that case.
>> Your other comments are still valid TODO's.
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> True, but I don't want to suggest *this* case isn't a valid TODO.  I'm
> *still* running push --overwrite.

I've noticed this behaviour as well.  Something really nutty is 
happening when pushing to a diverged branch.

Cheers,
mwh