Re: Subversion 1.6.17 Released

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Neil Bird <neil_at_jibbyjobby.co.uk> wrote:
> Around about 03/06/11 03:46, Nico Kadel-Garcia typed ...
>>
>> And, apparently, the long-standing issue for clients with NTFS
>> filesystems sytems, issue #3719. I'm very much looking forward to
>> testing against a CIFS share, which was taking easily 10 times as long
>> as checkouts on NFS shares.
>
>  The Linux command-line 1.6.17 is significantly faster¹ for a CIFS-mounted
> NTFS drive.  I expect TSVN to be similarly improved.

Faster than than it was for .6.16 or earlier with the Linux client? Good!!!!

I want to see the results of the Windows CIFS client. I tried to get a
Windows 7 box in my last such test environment to run NFS
comparisions, but there were..... fascinating reasons I was not among
the testers for Windows 7.

>
>
> ¹ - for the use-case of lots of files in single dirs. that have svn props
> set on them, which is what this fix actually addresses
Received on 2011-06-04 00:21:21 CEST