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Re: Ways to keep users from checking out too much.

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2006-02-22 23:38:24 CET

On 2/22/06, Alexander Kitaev <alex@tmate.org> wrote:
> Hello Garrett,
>
> Am I understand correctly that svn.apache.org is organized as a single
> repository that contains a lot of apache projects, each with its own tags
> and branches? I mean one at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ that currently
> includes more then 379000 of revisions.
>
> If you're talking about that repository, from my point of view (I'm not
> Subversion developer), making a checkout from such repository (even not from
> the root) makes Subversion server go through all that thousands of revisions
> and this of course could slow down everething. May it makes sense to
> dedicate a separate repository for each project - indexing software will
> only index separate respositories, users will not be able to checkout
> everething, and in general performance will be better. Exuse me if I mixed
> up something...

The problem is that even checking out the root of a single project
(and thus all its tags, branches, etc) is still enough to cause a
noticable problem. Splitting the repository wouldn't stop that sort
of problem.

-garrett

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