Beman Dawes wrote:
***** Serious Problem ***** The initial checkout seemed to be working my DSL connection pretty hard, so I started Task Manager and monitored "bytes received". By the time the checkout finished, over 800 megabytes had been received! I tried a completely fresh CVS checkout for comparison; the received byte count was 12.5 megabytes. CVS uses compression (although you have to remember to turn it on); I couldn't find any mention of a compression option in the SVN docs, and a search of RapidSVN menus didn't turn up any way to turn on compression. We would need to solve this problem since 800 megabyte checkouts aren't acceptable for dial-up users.
800 MB is a lot more than Boost's size. Could it be you downloaded all revisions of Boost? If the tool that was used to create the SVN repository uses a layout similar to what is proposed in the SVN book and if the tools created tags analogue to what was present in the CVS then you should checkout the /trunk subdirectory for getting the head revision only. If you omit the /trunk then you get all versions ever tagged. Regards, m