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

(redirecting to the right list ) -max On May 6, 2010, at 10:13, Andersen Max wrote: > > On May 5, 2010, at 10:26, Yahor Radtsevich wrote: > >> Hi Max, >> >> Regular svn updates (with short delta) are acceptable fast (5-10min under Windows), but in the cases when an old version is needed or to do svn switch, the updates are much longer: >> svn update -r21899 (from r21862, 2 days old): 7m9s >> svn update -r21862 (from r21485, 3 weeks old): 1h12m >> svn update -r21888 (from r20458, 2.5 months old): 2h57m >> > > How often do you do such operations ?

> Those times doesn't sound like something excluding documentation will fix, nor > do they look extremely slow for a large codebase ?

> >> Under Linux short updates take 1-2min, and there is no difference for long ones. > > So the problem is windows ?

> > /max >> >> >> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Andersen Max <max.andersen(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> Thanks for the tip...but How loong are those updates ? >> >> doing an svn update for me takes less than 1 minute, sometimes 1.5 minute. >> >> Rob (who is in China) just did it in 90 seconds from a coffee shop. >> >> What is the time for you ? >> >> /max >> >> On May 4, 2010, at 11:01, Yahor Radtsevich wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> If you, like me, are annoyed by looooong time of trunk updates, there is a SVN feature to skip directories you do not use. This feature is called 'Sparse Directories'. >>> >>> For example, to delete directory 'documentation' from your local copy of trunk permanently, use the following command: >>> svn update --set-depth empty documentation >>> After this command, the documentation directory will be skipped during further updates and switches. (To restore it back, use --set-depth infinity). >>> >>> Windows users may use the following batch-script to delete all documentation and *\docs directories at once (just save as deletedocs.bat and run from trunk directory): >>> @echo DELETING OF documentation... >>> svn update --set-depth empty documentation >>> @echo DELETING OF *\docs: >>> @FOR /f %%d IN ('dir /b /a:d') DO ( >>> @IF EXIST %%d\docs\.svn ( >>> @echo DELETING OF %%d\docs... >>> svn update --set-depth empty %%d\docs >>> ) >>> ) >>> >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Yahor Radtsevich >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> jbosstools-dev mailing list >>> jbosstools-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jbosstools-dev >> >> > >