On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 23:58 +0000, Martin Pool wrote:
> I think Andrew plans to remove this.
We're removing the *use* of it for client-server operations because of
its very choppy IO patterns. For local conversions IDS is still the
fastest path and at least in the short term it is likely to stay.
> The point of it is to convert between repositories that use different
> serializations, ie different representations as strings of inventories,
> revisions, etc
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 23:58 +0000, Martin Pool wrote:
> I think Andrew plans to remove this.
We're removing the *use* of it for client-server operations because of
its very choppy IO patterns. For local conversions IDS is still the
fastest path and at least in the short term it is likely to stay.
> The point of it is to convert between repositories that use different
> serializations, ie different representations as strings of inventories,
> revisions, etc
I think it would be good to add a docstring ;).
-Rob