Re: Support compression in svnserve

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Steve Lunt <steven_lunt_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> We plan on using the "svnserve" server configuration (not tunneled over ssh
> and not under the Apache HTTP server). We need support for compression,
> particularly for the initial checkout of a file. The other posts regarding
> this have mentioned that you can get compression with Apache or with ssh,
> neither of which applies to our use case. Also, some posts point out that
> updates and diffs already send a fairly small amount of data between the
> client and server, but where we see slowness is in retrieving the snapshot
> of a file (e.g., checking out a file or doing an update which pulls in new
> files). Our client and server are separated by a low bandwidth pipe.

As long as your repository was created with SVN 1.4+ then the data is
already compressed between client and server. I actually think it was
always compressed, but the compression got better.

I recall an additional improvement may have been added post-1.5 as
well. Anyway, the point is that svnserve has compression already.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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