-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Eugene V. Lyubimkin] >> Reproducing: >> >> $ svn co https://only.mawhrin.net/repos/stuff fbreader --depth=immediates >> >> This command added only 'trunk', 'branches', 'tags' directories, but >> have eaten at least several megabytes of network traffic. > > This is a limitation of the network protocol. Quoting from > /usr/share/doc/subversion/svn_1.5_releasenotes.html: > > | The new --depth feature naturally requires the client to be 1.5+, and > | will work most efficiently if the server is also 1.5+. However, the > | client will still behave correctly if the server is 1.4.x or lower; > | things will just be less efficient. > | > | This is because older servers do not understand -- and therefore > | ignore -- what the client tells them about "depth". So when a client > | requests a depth shallower than depth-infinity, older servers will > | send back more data than the client wants. However, a 1.5+ client > | will know it's talking to an older server and filter out this extra > | data. Thus, operations may take a while, because the server sends a > | lot of data over the network that the client then ignores, but the > | final result on the client side will be the same. (Note that older > | servers understand a recurse flag in the network protocols, and 1.5+ > | clients send that flag based on the depth; this alleviates some of > | the extra network traffic penalty.) > > The following workaround exists. Note that -N is a flag that existed > in previous versions of svn, and now is (mostly) a synonym for > --depth=files: > > $ svn co -N https://only.mawhrin.net/repos/stuff fbreader > $ cd fbreader > $ svn up -N trunk tags branches > > (I note that when I tried the above, it did not check out branches, > because of access control on the server - branches is protected against > the anonymous user. It had already successfully gotten other stuff as > the anonymous user, so it skipped asking for a username/password.) > > Hope this helps, Thank you for comprehensive answer. Workaround is better than nothing.
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