A brief followup on my rant
First up: Greg
Wow. You show pretty complete ignorance in how to use subversion.
This I do not dispute.
How can a branch take an hour?? Even a cursory glance at the docs (not to mention actually trying it) would show that it is practically instantaneous.
I obviously have tried it, since I know how long it takes. And it takes an hour. Granted, that was with copy-commit on a working copy, instead of using ridiculously cumbersome absolute URIs. Using those is a huge hassle, which is why I did it in the working directory to begin with. However, going back and trying with URIs, it still takes around 15 minutes. Better, but not “instantaneous” in any sense of the word.
And I don’t know what problems you’ve been having with BDB, but we’ve got a repository of several gigabytes in that format and have never had a problem.
The problem occurs when you want to upgrade libdb, or copy the repo to a system using a different version. In many cases, it simply will not work.
Anonymous:
Subversion uses cheap copies – i.e. tags & branches don’t take up additional space by default.
They may be cheap in terms of disk space, but they are temporally expensive.
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