On 3/29/11 4:55 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 09:39:14AM +0100, Echlin, Jamie wrote:
>>> I'm dealiing with people who like Fisheye, which I've never
>>> used, and want them to be able to use ssh or svn+ssh access
>>> to the master Subversion repositories. Does this work well?
>>> Has anyone used this?
>>
>> It should work fine, we use jira-svn integration over svn+ssh, which I
>> mention because they both use svnkit so I can't see why there would be a
>> problem with fisheye.
>>
>> We don't use that protocol with fisheye because it's slow as a very slow
>> thing as it is, so you really need to be using file:// protocol with it.
>>
>>
>> Fisheye really doesn't scale very well, but ymmv...
>
> I've seen people run fisheye on svnsync'd copies of their repositories,
> in order to push the load off the main server. I believe they were also
> using the file:// protocol (on the copies).
That would probably make sense. Fisheye is going to extract every revision and
index it for full-text searching, etc., so it is going to do a lot of access and
be much less efficient than subversion itself. Run it on a machine with plenty
of RAM.
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Les Mikesell
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Received on 2011-03-29 14:38:04 CEST