On 7/31/07, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:
David A. Greene wrote:
I know this is rather late in the game but it's only recently that I've had extensive experience with Subversion.
My experience has not been good. I've found that Subversion scales very poorly, which makes me nervous about moving a large project like Boost into it. I've had situations where's it's taken hours and sometimes days to perform checkouts. And this is with the most recent version. ..... I've also encountered issues with Subversion's interaction with http timeouts. ..... The bottom line is that svn over http and https is very, very broken.
(My comment about no problems with other svn repositories probably has to do with the fact that those other repositories are much smaller than llvm's).
If I understand correctly, no other LLVM developer has this problem, right? Then, it suggests either some particular flakiness in your network environment, or your svn client is somehow broken. And there are many projects larger than LLVM that don't have any problems.
People regularly have similar problems with my toy project subversion server, which might indicate that the issue is not a function of project size (but rather of bad administration on my side? ;-). Regards, Michael