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Re: Submit large bunch of files over a slow ad unstable network

From: Jeff Smith <jsmith_at_robotronics.com>
Date: 2007-03-02 22:48:41 CET

On Friday 02 March 2007 12:45, Li Ma wrote:
> Isnt there any retry ability on SVN? Cause the network might be
> slow or unreliable, but most of the time, it worked. I could
> connect my remote server with SSH and work for long time.

The "Internet" itself handles retries. It's not at all like every
TCP/IP stream just gives up when it hits the first error. The
application is normally not even aware it had a few errors durring
the first attempts. The problem is that most people don't want to
keep trying forever if too unstable (not to mention one error in a
million could be mis-interpereted and do the wrong thing).

> Since the nature of SVN is transaction based, it will be great if
> it could cache the uploaded stuff somewhere on server, push the
> data up ( with retries ), then submit in transaction over there.
> Otherwise, it is too easy to break a big transaction in case like
> mine.

I wonder if there is a more specific problem you are having. What
exactly is a problem you've had? What error? Are you trying to add
all the files initially, or just committing routine changes? Normally
the routine changes are not anywhere near the size of transmitting
the entire files.

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