On Jul 29, 2010, at 15:40, David Weintraub wrote: > Subversion is known for simplicity, ease of use, but speed isn't one > of them. The entire .svn directory thing slows Subversion down -- > especially since the entire diff is kept in there.
I wouldn't say Subversion is inherently slow at all. Yes, scanning the .svn directories takes time if you have a large number of directories in your working copy, but that's being totally reworked for version 1.7 so it shouldn't be a problem much longer. > I believe you can have a Subversion repository run using both the > svn:// protocol and the http:// protocol at the same time (Is this > true? Somebody respond). Yes, there is a section of the book explaining how to do this. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.multimethod.html