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Re: Why rewrite the Subversion working copy?

From: Listman <listman_at_burble.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:31:50 -0700

On Apr 23, 2008, at 6:05 AM- Apr 23, 2008, Bert Huijben wrote:
>
> Not sure if everybody noticed this. The original questions on the p4
> edit
> speed comparison all used working copies on 'netapp's.. (That is: A
> remote
> directory on a NAS), while we optimize our working copy mostly for
> local
> filesystems..
>
> I don't think any other scanning solutions could fix performance on
> those
> systems (Unless we trigger something that makes the network caching
> fail).
> That network layout almost requires a checkin-checkout solution
> which we
> don't.
> (I'm not sure if we should even spend time to speed up that subversion
> usage)
>

but thats the reality of most corporations, user accounts (and hence
working copies) are on a remote dir, on a NAS. Perforce performs well
in this situation because the "p4 edit" command negates the need for
disk-scanning the wc. I really think we should have this as an
optional mode with SVN.

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