On May 21, 2010, at 8:23 AM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > Actually, Subversion is a bit more intelligent about it, attempting to use > modification times and sizes, before doing a byte-by-byte comparison.
Even that can be slow if there are lots of files involved. Note that some filesystems have particularly bad performance if there are lots of files in a single directory, as well. This is especially true of NFS. In one extreme example, I've seen a simple "ls" take tens of minutes to produce any output in an NFS-mounted directory with ~1,000,000 files. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington
