Determining the repository format of a remote repo...

[John Szakmeister]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:34 AM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
[snip]
> At the moment, switch to 'sftp://' urls should help

Thanks.

[snip]
> Though probably you could just do "bzr info sftp://..."
>
> Standalone branch (format: 2a)
> Location:
>  branch root:
> sftp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~trac-backlog-team/trac-backlog/trunk/
>
> Related branches:
>  public branch:
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~trac-backlog-team/trac-backlog/trunk
>  parent branch: lp-hosted:///%7Ejszakmeister/%2Bjunk/trac-backlog/
>
>
> It certainly completes much faster.

I'm must admit I'm confused by Bazaar's behavior here.  I should use
bzr+ssh:// because that uses the smart server, and lp: defaults to
that for me.  But then there are instances when sftp:// is better?
How do I know when to use which one?  Can you point me at the source
somewhere where I can patch this and make this work for bzr+ssh://
transports?

I'm not trying to be critical here, but it's frustrating from a user
standpoint (but at least I'm willing to help fix it!).

-John