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Re: singl file checkout

From: Mark Eichin <eichin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:23:32 -0400

See also http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2008-07/0494.shtml

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Mark Eichin <eichin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> The answer to that used to be "fsh" http://www.lysator.liu.se/fsh/ but
>> I see it hasn't updated since 2001 (that said, it was pretty simple
>> and ought to still work with a modern ssh) - you use it to run an
>> initial ssh, and then it tunnels further requests over that initial
>> session. (That said, I think I've heard talk of svn reusing the
>> connection more in the future, but I don't know if it was anywhere
>> real...)
>
> A friend just pointed out that the reason it isn't needed anymore is
> the ControlMaster/ControlPath feature of modern ssh, which takes care
> of it directly; looks like you can do something like
>
> ssh -o ControlMaster=yes -o ControlPath=/tmp/mysocket svnserver
> and leave that around, then
> export SVN_SSH="ssh -o ControlMaster=no -o ControlPath=/tmp/mysocket"
> and use svn+ssh as you already do... I haven't tried this myself yet
> to see how much of a performance difference it makes, just confirmed
> that the commands work...
>

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_Mark_ <eichin_at_thok.org> <eichin_at_gmail.com>
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