On Mon, 2010-02-08, Phillip Hellewell wrote: > I'm not sure if this is related to issue 1448 or not (it's kinda like the > opposite of 1448 actually), but I use externals extensively and doing an > update is slow. It appears to be creating a new connection for each > external even though it's the same repository on the same server. Each > connection takes about 3 seconds to make. > > I have a large project (over 10,000 files) that takes about 10 seconds to do > an update (with no externals). Then I have a sibling folder that acts as a > "module" to provide a limited view of the project by using relative > externals to about a dozen subdirs of the project. This "module" folder > takes 40 seconds to do an update. So it takes longer to update this > "module" folder even though it only contains a subset of the project! Even > individual file externals take 3 seconds each to update. > > Since all the externals are relative, they are to the same repository on the > same server, so can't we re-use existing connection?
Yes, that would be a good enhancement. There are several places where the client should/could re-use a connection. During a multi-target update command like "svn up a b c" is another example. Would you, or anyone you know, be interested in working on it? I would be glad to give you some help and guidance. - Julian
