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

[Andersen Max]

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-max

On May 6, 2010, at 10:13, Andersen Max wrote:

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> On May 5, 2010, at 10:26, Yahor Radtsevich wrote:
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>> 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
>> 
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> 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 ?
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>> Under Linux short updates take 1-2min, and there is no difference for long ones.
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> So the problem is windows ?
> 
> /max
>> 
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>> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Andersen Max <max.andersen at redhat.com> 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
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>> On May 4, 2010, at 11:01, Yahor Radtsevich wrote:
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>>> 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
>>> 
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