Comment 5 for bug 260335
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| Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote Re: [Bug 260335] Re: Server is too old for streaming pull, reconnecting. (Upgrade the server to Bazaar 1.2 to avoid this) | #5 |
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 02:27 +0000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> This what happens when a Bazaar 1.5 client talks to a Bazaar 1.6 server.
> The workaround is to upgrade your client to Bazaar 1.6 — we aren't going
> to downgrade the version of Bazaar on Launchpad.
>
> The Bazaar team might want to patch the 1.5 release to improve the error
> message or even fix the bug.
Its not a bug per se: bzr 1.5 tries to use a streaming method that helps
pull; we removed that in 1.6 for a number of reasons; most prominently
that it generated some very high peak memory usage, and that the API did
not fit with the changes needed for stacking.
-Rob
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