Hi Gavin,
On 21.02.2012 00:21, Gavin McDonald wrote:
If anyone wants to do large commits like below link shows [1] (over 8000
paths changed and lots of zips and tar files.)
PLEASE notify infra first and schedule it for a WEEKEND.
Sorry for that. All I did was updating a branch to current trunk. I was
also surprised that in that one week I wanted to get updates for sooo
many files were touched, obviously mainly flag changes.
If updating a simple work branch can lead to this, something is not
optimal and we should think about it. It's not really an alternative
when working with svn on a simple branch (where only single files were
changed) to wait until the weekend and to notify someone to continue
working, esp. when you want to use that branch to get the code to
different build machines on various OSes or various colleagues.
We have svn branches as mechanism for that, I do not want to go back,
create diffs and sync repos on different machines per hand, this cannot
be the solution, IMHO.
I know - when looking at it now - technically I could have extracted a
diff from my branch, throw the branch away, create a new one from trunk
and apply the diff. But this would have required to know aforehand how
many changes were done and that the commit would be extreme. It's also
not a good solution when you are committed to a project which works with
a code versioning system.
Please point me to a solution which would be compliant with svn usage
and infra and I'll surely use it next time.
From my POV it also shows that the mechanism to update svn branches is
not optimal; all those binary files which were committed and thus
transferred again were already on the trunk, so technically it may be
time to think about a more effective way to update branches with svn.
Creating a branch does a 'cheap copy' (CopyOnWrite - COW), so I would
have expected that updating would somehow try to stay with this and not
transfer all files again. Maybe it would be possible (in the commit step
of updating branches) to send a checksum of a file first, see if it's
the same as on trunk and add it as COW-copy...
People have been struggling to commit to the EU mirror since this large
commit was started 5 hours ago.
Thanks
Gav...
[1] -
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&sortby=rev&sortdir=down&revision=
1291394
Sincerely,
Armin
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ALG
