Pat Farrell <pfarrell_at_pfarrell.com> wrote on 11/17/2009 10:23:40 PM:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > On Nov 17, 2009, at 17:27, Pat Farrell wrote:
> >> I'm pretty sure that this is considered a "doctor, doctor" problem.
> >>
> > 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.)
>
> OK, I'll grant that, but in general, my experience is that SVN is not a
> great tool for large binary files. I've not worked with the specific,
> "svnsync" but in general, big files tend to clog up the whole process.
>
> I agree that if its supported, it should work.
>
> I suggest that the svn developers consider strongly warning people that
> using it for big binary things is not optimal. It works well for source
> code, and at least "OK" for small binary things (couple of pages of Word
> or OpenOffice documents). But when the files get into hundreds of
> megabytes, for each revision, I think SVN is not the right tool.
FWIW, our largest single revision is >20G... We don't use svnsync, but
you
are probably running into a network timeout where the client is taking
too long writing to disk causing the network connection to timeout before
it is able to request the next chunk from the server. We had to increase
timeout values when using http:// when using large working copies
with slow disk i/o on the client. Not sure where to tweak on svn://...
Kevin R.
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