On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:20:57AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >Daniel Berlin wrote: >>I should note that svn treats it's remote connections as disposable, so >>svn+ssh will probably connect more than once for things like remote >>diffs. So if it takes a while to authenticate, this may not be your >>best bet if you are looking for blazing speed (as some seem to be :P). > >It would seem to be possible to use fsh to cache ssh connections for >svn. But I have not tried it with svn and have not worked out the >exact client side svn configuration syntax. > >http://www.lysator.liu.se/fsh/ > >This works well to speed up CVS connections. Does the server side have >fsh capability? If so this could be useful.
I don't think fsh is a good idea. That could mean potentially hundreds of persistent ssh connections sitting around on the server.