On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 02:20 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote: > > > It *only* sends compressed texts, there is no need to pass extra > > options. > > Although checkout/update are probably the normal use cases which use the > bulk of the bandwidth - along with commit where svn can send diffs and cvs > needs to upload the whole changed file - svn log appears to receive logs > from the server in uncompressed form,
This is true. However, you are talking about reporting data, and he was asking about checkout of actual things in the repository. :) > which can be large for logs of e.g. > the whole gcc/ directory. I'm sure those people developing GCC on dialup > would be glad of compression even for much smaller logs. > In this case it may be best to just offer anonymous ssh with compression, the way other people do (however, rather than have a key that everyone installs, you just have an anonssh password). However, i will explore making it use zlib to send logs when possible anyway (this should be able to be implemented in a backwards compatible manner because of how the protocol works).
