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Re: [TSVN] explorer hangs and crashes apparently caused by TSVNCache

From: Roel Harbers <roel_at_roelharbers.com>
Date: 2005-05-09 11:45:29 CEST

Simon Large wrote:
> Matthew S. Moore wrote:
>
>>One last question, does anyone know of any problems with running TSVN
>>v1.2.x against a SVN v1.1.4 server? I realize the locking won't
>>work, but I am just wondering if there are any known problems. Our
>>server is currently stuck on Cygwin until I can get a Linux box
>>allocated and built.
>
>
> It will work, but log dialogs could be _very_ slow if you have a large
> number of commits. The TSVN 1.2 client fetches the requested number of
> log messages (default 100), rather than the log messages for requested
> number of revisions. The 1.1.x server doesn't support this so it returns
> _all_ log messages which the client then filters.
>
> AFAIK there is no way to query the server version, so I suggest we
> should add (yet) another option to choose whether to use the old or the
> new behaviour. Otherwise, TSVN will be almost unuseable for people
> working with older server versions, and it may be some time before all
> servers get upgraded. Lots of people will want TSVN 1.2 ASAP because of
> all the new features (there is much more than locking in this release),
> but repo admins may be slower.
>
> Simon

Ah, that explains a lot... the log has indeed been very slow, using the
nightlies. (>2000 revisions in my repo)

As I have had 0 (zero) problems with svn 1.1 as server, and no need for
locking, I am not going to upgrade my server anytime soon, so an option
for the old behaviour would be nice.

Regards,

Roel Harbers

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