On 6/16/2010 4:21 PM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
The Subversion client has a bad habit of treating repository access connections (whether they be http, svn, or something else) as cheap resources. Of course this is an invalid assumption, but it hasn't yet been addressed by the developers.
I'm not sure subversion is the right tool in the first place if you can't arrange good network connectivity.
A couple of us talked last week over dinner about the potential of being more intelligent about reusing connections, but there isn't any definite timetable to do so.
Maybe something more drastic like git-svn would be a better approach if you have to think twice about making a connection. I'm not sure how it handles the remote repository connection when you need it, though.
If it is just a matter of firewall restrictions, maybe the people that need them could arrange some sort of vpn to bypass it.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com
