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Re: Tortoise SVN Issue Noticed

From: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:31:28 +0200

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Martin Bischoff <tinu44_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Thorsten Schöning
>> <tschoening_at_am-soft.de> wrote:
>> > Guten Tag Ajay Pawar,
>> > am Montag, 29. April 2013 um 12:08 schrieben Sie:
>> >
>> >> I added a new file XYZ.ppt which is of size 984 kb but still the client
>> >> shows 0 kb.
>> >
>> > As already said, Subversion uses delta transmission, compresses
>> > content on transmission and my even use some kind of
>> > deduplication/representation sharing on the client. I'm not sure what
>> > exactly your problem is? Do you want to force Subversion that only the
>> > exact amount of data a file on your hard disk needs gets transferred?
>> > You can't predict how much data gets transferred, simple as that.
>>
>> I'm wondering if this is actually an 'svn core' issue, or if this is
>> specific to TortoiseSVN. I can't remember seeing a "transferred X KB"
>> output when running 'svn update' on the command line. If it's
>> TSVN-specific, it's probably better to try your luck on their
>> mailinglist first.
>>
>> See here: http://tortoisesvn.net/community.html
>>
> There is definitely a bug in the display of the data transfer progress.
>
> See here for an old discussion on the tortoisesvn-users list:
> http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4061&dsMessageId=2991921
>
> But it seems the root cause is somewhere in SVN. It has to do with issue
> 3260:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3260
>

Ah, so it's a known issue then. Thanks, that's good to know.

Unfortunately, it seems no work has been done on that issue (and
AFAICS nobody is actively working on it). Perhaps the new activity
around this issue might motivate a developer to take it on ... Or
perhaps someone new wants to take a closer look and maybe write a
patch? [1]

[1] http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/general.html#patches

--
Johan
Received on 2013-04-29 13:32:20 CEST

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