Since 1.6 release, SVN has a new technology that lets you discard (only from your working copy) parts of a checkout.
When you check out the UIMA website - you get all of the "generated" docs we (currently) keep there, in the subdirectory /docs/d/. Since these are 1000's of files, it slows things down a bit for various operations in your working directory. You can discard this part of the checkout using: cd <working-dir-to-top-of-website-checkout> svn update --set-depth exclude docs/d This churns for a while, discarding the local working copy of the /d/ directory. But from then on, you have a much smaller working directory. All of the normal operations you might want to do work as before. See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.6/svn.advanced.sparsedirs.html for more on this option. -Marshall
