Re: Poor performance in windows. Switching back to CVS

On Feb 12, 2007, at 15:00, John Allen wrote:

>> the OP's issue isn't performance on the server side. The issue is
>> client side (working copy) performance. Particularly for
>> operations that have to thumb through a *lot* of files, like update.
>
> Update should not be "thumbing" through a lot of files, the svn
> server should supply the diffs between
> your working copy revision, and the current revision on the server.
>
> Now commits are a different story, the client has to scan the
> working copy to find the changes you
> have made, and this will be slow on Windows if you have 1000's
> files in your working copy.

But both the update and the commit *do* need to thumb through the
entire working copy to read through all the .svn directories to find
out what the current revision of all the files and directories is.

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