Yes that is a painful way to proceed. 9 times out of 10 it is way faster to nuke a partial checkout and retry than it is to use svn update to pick up where you left off.
I learned this while dealing with network issues during a FreeBSD checkout. Wasted a full day waiting on svn up. >________________________________ >From: Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:03 PM >Subject: RE: Update on SVN dump load > >I am clearly doing this wrong. There must be a more-efficient way to handle >this than by an SVN check-out and, after the check-out is interrupted for some >reason, subsequent SVN updates to continue pulling down a working copy of the >repo, rinse-repeat whenever there are connection failures of some kind. > >I say that because I am around 12 hours into that process and I am still >pulling just the trunk (at about 1.5 GB including all of the .svn stuff). > >Fortunately, it doesn't swamp my machine and I can do other work, such as >write emails [;<). Don't think I'll try watching Netflix on-line though [;<). > >- Dennis > >PS: I have, since June 1, had a lifetimes supply of ways to show myself how >stupid I am. Walking onto a project of this magnitude without first learning >the toolcraft and customs on something smaller is not thrilling. I am going >to find those smaller things to teeth on while I watch in horror how complex >this activity is. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 16:22 >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: Update on SVN dump load > >Ah, the excitement builds ... > >One way to not do commits (and to avoid certificate warnings) is to use the >http:// address, not the https:// form. > >- Dennis > >-----Original Message----- >From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 15:17 >To: [email protected] >Subject: Update on SVN dump load > >Our JIRA issue has been updated: >https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3862 > >Joe has done a test load onto: >https://svn-master.apache.org/repos/test/joes/ooo > >No commits to it, please, but yell out if you see anything wrong. It >looks good so far. > >-Rob > > > >
