On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Andreas Krey <a.k...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> > > Except for the part where not everyone should be forced to reinvent > > the wheel of 'put the sandbox in a pristine state' as in 'cd ..; > > rm -r $sandboxname; svn checkout -r $rev $url $sandboxname', but more > > efficiently and without hitting the network. > > Our VCS/CI and build slaves sit in the same lab on a fast network > (which seems like it would be the common arrangement...) so I've never > been particularly concerned about hitting the network - that's what it > is designed for. And the CI knows how to do a clean checkout itself. > Some of us have to work through VPN's, and have relatively large checkouts. A 100 Meg checkout is certainly not unusual in Java environments, where bulky .war files are common, and that can be really slow over a home DSL setup or