Re: Anonymous (read-only) GCC SVN access through a firewall

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 15:55 -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 06:48:40PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > Errr, I emailed you privately a few months ago saying i had set up http
> > access :)
> 
> I recall that you mailed me saying that you were *going* to do it, not that
> it had been done.  However, since I don't appear to have that email,
> I'll just say "thank you" rather than argue, when it's probably my
> confusion anyway.  Thanks.
> 
> > just replace svn:// with http://
> > 
> > (note if it becomes too much of a burden on the server, we will probably
> > have to limit or turn it off).
> 
> I don't get why the http mode should be more costly for read-only access;
> perhaps it isn't well-tuned?

Because it can't issue multiple operations over the same channel, and
because mod_dav_svn has, um, issues.

It's noticeably slower right now than svn:// access, both client and
server side.


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