On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 12:30, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > At 08:45 AM 6/7/2004, Bill Stoddard wrote: > >Brian W. Fitzpatrick wrote: > >>On Jun 6, 2004, at 10:42 PM, Geoffrey Young wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>>FYI, Fitz did a conversion of apache-1.3, which is now located at > >>>>http://svn.apache.org/repos/test/httpd/. (in the test repository). > >>> > >>>wow, that's a lot of data - 10 minutes later and I'm still downloading... > >> > >>By checking out http://svn.apache.org/repos/test/httpd/, you're getting one copy > >>of the httpd source tree for every branch and tag! That's a LOT of data! > > Badda bing, badda boom. So my rsync fears were unfounded, it appears > it is trivial to mirror the repository? > > I'm much more comfortable with that news. Is this more or less bandwidth > intensive than simply rsync'ing the repository files themselves?
Much much much much more. A tag in Subversion is an O(n) operation. checking out a tag is not. We need to get something in place to provide for rsync or rsync-like capabilities. -Fitz
