Re: svnsync will not sync 527Mb revision

On Nov 17, 2009, at 17:27, Pat Farrell wrote:

> Philip Bondi wrote:
>> I have three repositories. With lots of binary files. Just committed a
>> 527 Mb revision and svnsync will not replicate after about 10 retries.
>>
>> This really needs to get fixed, urgently.
>
> I'm pretty sure that this is considered a "doctor, doctor" problem. From
> the old vaudville joke:
>
> Patient: Doctor Doctor, it hurts when I do this.
> Doctor: then don't do that.

That's probably not a reasonable attitude to take for a tool like svnsync that's supposed to be able to replicate existing repositories. He said he already committed the large revision. We all know there is no svnadmin obliterate and that it's difficult to remove revisions from a repository later. And some users have valid reasons for wanting to store large binary files in a repository. (Video game development, for example, would involve large files for textures, audio and video.) If svnsync is not able to handle this situation, it should be documented as such, but more probably, it should be fixed so that it works -- if indeed it's globally broken. It could just be a local configuration issue on Philip's system, but I don't know what.

Philip, are you running the latest Subversion? Are you able to reproduce the issue with a simple test case? (Create a repository, make a 527MB revision, try to sync it to a new repository.) If so, please send a reproduction recipe.

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Received on 2009-11-18 00:44:16 CET