Speed of folder externals

Hi all,

We started using externals for our vendor branches a few months ago, and
while they're very useful from an organizational point of view, they
cause basic operations (update, check for modifications, commit) to be
annoyingly slow.

We've got a single folder ("libs") with 40 relative external folders
defined in its properties. (eg. "^/vendors/libA/1.23 libA")

With no changes in the libs folder, doing a commit on any folder that
contains the libs folder can take upwards of five minutes to figure out
what files need to be committed. Updates are faster, but still take a
good minute to check all the externals even when nothing has changed on
the server.

Is this normal? If not, any guesses as to where the bottleneck is? I
suspect some of it is the server, since that's an XP box that is still
running SVN 1.5.4.

As a temporary solution, I've beeen using the checkbox in the Check for
Modifications dialog to ignore externals, although it's off by default
so I have to always cancel, uncheck the box, then refresh. But there's
no matching options in the Commit dialog.

Thanks in advance,

-Mike

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Received on 2009-07-09 20:30:33 CEST