Comment 7 for bug 105570

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 105570] Re: "Launchpad could not mirror this branch" error overwhelms the branch page

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:53 +0000, John A Meinel wrote:
> Maybe.
>
> I could also say that the branch format code knows that it is looking
> for a single line, not a whole page. So it knows right away that the
> 'branch-format' file is not correct when the first line doesn't match.
>
> Depending on the abstraction, it is hard for the high-level code to know
> how to format the error it is getting. Or it has to special case every
> possible error that is being raised.
>
> It is possible to do so, but I can see an argument either way.

I think bzr should not hide data.

Lp is completely capable of trimming the data for display.

-Rob
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