On Mar 17, 9:35 am, Cactus <rieman...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I desperately need some advice on my local SVN setup.
>
> Right now I have this pointed at the MPIR top level directory. This
> has been tolerable until now but when I updated today it cost me 10%
> of my monthly bandwidth allowance (not being at University or being
> employed by a company I have to pay for my bandwidth) just to get
> updated as a result of all the new branches in SVN. It also took 15
> minutes.
>
> Sadly SVN appears to be completely stupid and just blindly downloads
> everything even though it is identical to files that already exist in
> other branches.
>
> Do we really need all these branches? If we do I think I am going to
> have to change my configuartion to point only at trunk since I really
> cannot afford to waste all this bandwidth downloading stuff that is
> identical to stuff I already have.
>
> I am amazed at the stupidity of SVN since I had wrongly assumed that a
> branch could be set up so that it only branched a file off its parent
> when a file was changed. But it doesn't - it just blindly downloads
> it all again - is this because I don't have SVN set up correctly?
>
> All of this maybe OK if bandwidth comes 'free' but mine doesn't! Or
> maybe this vindicates those who feel that SVN is a bad choice!
>
Apologies for my laziness - it appears that I can set up SVN locally
to ignore branches that I don't need.
Its a pain to set up but it seems to do what I want.
Brian
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