Hi all, One of the repositories I am working with has a long list of "svn:external" links. This has a major impact on working copy update performance, since each external link needs an additional roundtrip to the (painfully slow) SVN server. So it can easily be the case that the update of the main working copy (several 10k files) is done in <10 seconds, but querying the 40-45 external repository takes another 60-80 seconds.
However, since the external links are all fixed to a specific revision number, and since the working copy knows its current reference revision number, why do you have to roundtrip to the SVN server anyway? Wouldn't it be safe to omit the server roundtrip, under the assumption that a published revision is immutable? At least in my case, this would result in a speedup of "svn update" of factor 5-15 in the case of no or only a only few changesets to download. Thanks, Kuno
