extremely poor performance of svn propget svn:externals --recursive <URL>

I've been using this command as part of a script I'm writing that gives
me a snapshot of the revisions used in a repository at a given point in
time (including revisions of externals used). When I execute this
command on a project that contains just over 7000 files at some over
100MB it takes nearly 3 minutes, most of which time is spent in network
traffic.

Looking at it with ethereal I can see that svn makes several PROPFIND
requests per-file. I haven't seen what's contained in the responses
because the server I'm testing against (svn.collab.net) uses gzip. It
also appears to open several http sessions during the query.

Please CC me in any replies as I am not subscribed to the list right
now.

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Received on Sun Oct 15 21:44:48 2006