Stab in the dark guess -- you attempted to checkout trunk, all the tags and all the branches. This can be a really huge checkout in some projects. You might want to try to browse with your web browser just a little deeper and choose what specific version you want to checkout. Then take that url back to the svn command line.
--David André Warnier wrote: > Hi. > > This being the start of the Easter week-end, business being slow, > having walked 3 times around the block and drunk 10 cups of coffee > already, and having exhausted the mailing list, I decided to jump in > and at least have a go at doing something else than filing complaints > about Tomcat and Java on this list. > So I browsed to > > http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/miscellaneous/doccontrib.html > > and started to read and follow the instructions. > > Mind you, I am not a Tomcat nor a Java expert, but I figure I can read > and write, so I might occasionally find a spelling mistake in the > on-line docs and thus contribute my bit. Also, I met all these nice > guys at the latest ApacheCON, and most of them had a badge with > different colored stripes on it, and were thus much admired by the > girls (of which there were only about three or so, mine included). > Anyway, I figured this might at least be a cheap way to get a discount > next time. > > To further set the stage : my laptop is not of the white slim flashy > fruity variety which most of these guru guys sport, and it only runs > Windows XP; but it's a nice working-horse kind of laptop, which has > served me well for a couple of years now. It has 2 GB of RAM and still > about 100 GB to spare on the disk. So why not, he ? > > With a bit of apprehension, I downloaded and installed Ant. That went > well, except that when trying it out, it complained about not finding > a "tools.jar". But I quickly figured that one out. > Then I did the next thing in the page above (I already use SVN and > Tortoise SVN, so that was a no-brainer). > > The next thing is thus : > > svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/connectors/ > tomcat-connectors > > That started great, finding stuff as advertised and starting to create > all these directories full of java and xml and c thingies. > > After about 10 minutes of this, and seeing things scroll in the window > like "Tomcat_4.1.2", I started wondering about how much stuff I was > downloading. A quick inspection showed me that we were at something > like 700 MB and 50,000 files. > Wow, and this is only the Tomcat Connectors ! These guys are even > more impressive than I thought ! > > 10 minutes later, we were at 1.5 GB and about 100,000 directories, but > it was still going nicely. I was now seeing things that I never knew > existed, such as Tomcat_native.x.y etc.. > > 10 minutes later, we were at 2.2 Gb, and still going, but with some > hiccups. > > 10 minutes later, a strange message appeared in the command window, > telling me that my OS did not have enough resources available to > execute the current service. > At the same time, my laptop pretty much froze. > > There were still some faint desparate noises to be heard still from > the disk drive, as if it was weakly and frantically trying to put away > some stuff before giving up entirely. > > After waiting for a while and trying to provide moral encouragement to > my laptop, it finally got to the point where even CTRL-ALT-DEL did not > elicit any reaction anymore. I thus had to press the power button and > switch my laptop off brutally. > > This later cost me about an hour of disk checking, after which it > seemed fortunately that everything was back in order again. Seems > these MS guys have learned some things over time after all. > > Now I am left with an SVN/tomcat-connectors directory, containing some > 2.8 GB worth of files, apparently stopping at > > C:\develop\06_SVN\tomcat-connectors\trunk\util\loader\org\apache\tomcat\util\loader > > > So I don't know if I should redo the whole svn checkout, or an update, > or what ? > > Oh, and another thing : having read the instructions beforehand, I > wanted to contribute at least a note warning potential contributors of > the above, and I wanted to do this in the approved way. > So I cliked on the link at the bottom of the page : > > Bugzilla Bug Writing Guide > > which leads to > > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/bugwritinghelp.html > > which leads to > > Not Found > > The requested URL /bugzilla/bugwritinghelp.html was not found on this > server. > Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8e Server at > issues.apache.org Port 80 > > > Are the Tomcat developers trying to tell us something there (like, > don't) ? > :-) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > -- David Smith Programmer/Analyst College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Cornell University B32 Morrison Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Phone: (607) 255-4334 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
