Re: [boost] Initial Subversion/RapidSVN experience

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-05 17:33:44

At 02:17 PM 2/5/2005, Martin Wille wrote:
 >Beman Dawes wrote:
 >
 >> ***** Serious Problem ***** The initial checkout seemed to be working 
my
 >> DSL connection pretty hard, so I started Task Manager and monitored
 >> "bytes received". By the time the checkout finished, over 800 megabytes 

 >> had been received! I tried a completely fresh CVS checkout for
 >> comparison; the received byte count was 12.5 megabytes. CVS uses
 >> compression (although you have to remember to turn it on); I couldn't
 >> find any mention of a compression option in the SVN docs, and a search
 >> of RapidSVN menus didn't turn up any way to turn on compression. We
 >> would need to solve this problem since 800 megabyte checkouts aren't
 >> acceptable for dial-up users.
 >
 >800 MB is a lot more than Boost's size.
 >Could it be you downloaded all revisions of Boost?

It is some problem with the RapidSVN client. The same download with 
TortoiseSVN had a received byte count of 19 megs. More than CVS, but not 
totally objectionable.

--Beman