[jbosstools-dev] A tip: How to speed up SVN updates

Andersen Max max.andersen at redhat.com
Wed May 12 03:12:35 EDT 2010


> Commit to both branches - don't you have two copies or do you really do svn switch between them ?
> I have them now, but remembering old days it was faster to do svn switches, than to maintain a copy. And it does not solve the problem with rolling back to previous revisions.

 that all depends on the amount of deltas which will always vary over time.
> 
> > > do they look extremely slow for a large codebase ?
> > By deleting all docs from trunk and moving xulrunner to a different directory, the time of 21485 to 21862 updating has reduced to 0h29m (better than 2x improvement).
> 
> because changes happend in that area, right - if those changes happened in VPE or JSF would you also want to remove that ? :)
> The idea is to exclude all _unnecessary_ folders from local copy :) It is simple and it works.
> 

And docs are unnecessary ? They need to be built and maintained too...not just by doc team ;)

> But yeah, if splitting the build up doesn't help in this area moving docs might be the best option, but not right now.

/max


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