Re: Subversion Windows Performance compared to Linux

Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> writes:

> We made a conscious decision
> to design a working copy format that's faster than the old format could
> ever have been and can better support new features (such as client-side
> move tracking), at the expense of poorer performance on a remote
> filesystem that is, when you get right down to it, a 30-year-old
> dinosaur that was never designed for the kind of use that people these
> days seem to assume it can support.

The new working copy format in 1.7 had a speed issue with recursive
commit on NFS but that has been fixed in later clients. Use 1.8 or 1.9
and the new format is faster than the old format.

-- 
Philip Martin | Subversion Committer
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