On Wednesday 05 November 2008 12:07:23 Andreas.Otto_at_versit.de wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I have a problem using TortoiseSVN on a large SVN Repository
>
> What is my problem:
>
> 1. I have imported the whole snapshot from an other system
> (Dimensions) to SVN
> 2. the Repository has a size of ~4G
> 3. all files were imported in one step
> 4. on windows I want to use the Repo-browser
>
>
>
> 5. using the Show log option to look into the history
>
>
>
>
> 6 opens a new window providing the log history able to do diffs
> between different revisions
>
>
>
> 7 the problem is the opening the Log Messages dialog is blocking
> the whole application for
>
> >>> ~1 minute <<<
>
> the reason is that in the 3 textarea from top all files were
> displayed
>
> >>> ~ 100000 files <<<
>
> which were in the same commit statement as this single file
>
> -> a whole repository scan is done
>
> this information is nice to to have for small repositories but a
> killer for large repositories special if
> modification (like a initial load) were done in one single step
>
> for me this information is totally useless and the blocking is
> unacceptable
>
> -> the maximum blocking timeout acceptable for me is
>
> >>> ~ 3 seconds <<<
>
> -> what I can do to make the TortoiseSVN useable ?
>
>
>
> mfg
>
> Andreas Otto
I have seen the same problem with our svn repos.
For repo browsing and diffs we use viewvc, which is much faster since it
runs on the same machine as the svn server. To access viewvc you need a web
browser.
--
Bogdan Cristea
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Received on 2008-11-05 11:23:22 CET