On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are 615 extensions in trunk/extensions > With the new setup, would someone which has a checkout of everything > need to open 616 connections (network latency, ssh authentication, etc.) > whenever he wants to pull? > svn:externals already noticeably slow checkouts, and there's only a > bunch of them. > I'll do some tests; it may be possible to avoid having to do serial connection setup/teardown by using SSH's ControlMaster[1] setting to piggyback the 'new' connections on one that's already open. [1] < http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2010/02/ssh-controlmaster-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/ > (Part of what makes svn:externals slow is that you're jumping over to another site entirely -- that's an extra DNS lookup, possibly separate auth, and who knows how well the other server performs.) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
