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Re: A couple more subversion notes
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 14:09 +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> "Giovanni Bajo" <rasky@develer.com> writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
> | Even if we assume that it's impossible to upgrade OpenSSH on a given platform
> | for some weird reason,
>
> I appreciate your effort in this, but I strongly suggest that you
> refrain from calling reasons why people can't install the latest
> versions of supporting tools "weird".
>
> | the problem is probably going to be fixed by SVN 1.4 and
> | the new svn+ssl:// protocol. Meanwhile, unlucky people will have to live with a
> | slower "svn diff -rR1 -rR2" remote operation. Sorry about that, but let's not
> | remember of the other dozens which works on branches and can do a merge in
> | seconds instead of literally *hours*, and so on.
>
svn diff -r1:r2 is only slow in the very small diff case, where ssh
handshake time dominates the amount of data to be transferred.
Even then, if you do it as svn diff -r1:r2 svn://<path>, it will work
faster than cvs.
Yes, you do have to get used to doing things differently.
This is just a fact of switching.
--Dan