Hi, I'm not sure if this is related to issue 1448 or not (it's kinda like the opposite of 1448 actually), but I use externals extensively and doing an update is slow. It appears to be creating a new connection for each external even though it's the same repository on the same server. Each connection takes about 3 seconds to make.
I have a large project (over 10,000 files) that takes about 10 seconds to do an update (with no externals). Then I have a sibling folder that acts as a "module" to provide a limited view of the project by using relative externals to about a dozen subdirs of the project. This "module" folder takes 40 seconds to do an update. So it takes longer to update this "module" folder even though it only contains a subset of the project! Even individual file externals take 3 seconds each to update. Since all the externals are relative, they are to the same repository on the same server, so can't we re-use existing connection? Thanks, Phillip P.S. I am connecting to a server over the Internet, using HTTPS with Kerberos authentication.
