Do the tagging using server side URLs not WC URLs.
This will make it almost instanteous
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 11:29, Robbie Gibson wrote:
> Hi,
> We have a simple SVN setup where everybody works in the trunk. When we
> want to put our work into the production system we do a selective update of
> the files concerned - that is, we work on a file-by-file basis and hardly
> ever do a global "svn up" on the production systems. To keep track of
> production versions we create a complex tag with svn cp WC URL. This works
> fine, except that after a few months we started noticing a slowdown in the
> tag creation.
>
> Investigations showed that the "svn cp" was checking the version of every
> file to find the oldest revision and then using that as the basis for the
> tag, plus changes since. As we never do a global update and some files
> seldom change, the oldest revision could be 6 months ago - even if every
> file is completely up to date!
>
> To get over the problem I have written a small script which "updates" files
> with no pending changes to the latest version (i.e. my script updates the
> metadata for up-to-date files and directories). It's a bit slow but it
> seems to help. I have three questions:
> 1) Is this behaviour described by design, or is it a bug?
> 2) Does anybody have a better suggestion for how to resolve my problem?
>
> Thanks,
> R
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