[tex-live] svn timing
Sebastian Rahtz
sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Sat Jan 14 14:28:55 CET 2006
Karl Berry wrote:
>I'm a bit worried that I am wasting my time with svn (yet again). I've
>checked in the Master tree by now (no Build yet), and an svn update from
>the top (with nothing to actually update) takes about five minutes
>
That doesn't seem unacceptable to me. There's no
question but that Subversion is considerably slower
for some operations than Perforce, but that just means
adjusting ones work to a slightly different way of thinking.
>Although I dislike many things about perforce, perhaps their model of
>repository syncing is better suited to such a huge hier as TL.
>
It is, because of the server metadata which avoids
a complete local trawl.
I'm doing a complete co over my wireless connection
to my cable connection. I expect it to take hours!
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