On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 17:23, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:08, morten bjoernsvik wrote: > >> In many cases with small projects I move the repository around >> (like we have been used to with git) >> svnadmin dump <repository> | bzip2 > repository_revXX.svndump.bz2 >> and then: >> svnadmin create <parth to repository> >> bzip2 -dc repository_revXX.svndump.bz2 | svnadmin load <path to repository> >> This works fine up to around 100-150 revisions, then it becomes slow [...] > > In what way does it become slow? > > Many projects have much larger repositories that are not slow. The MacPorts > Project's repository has over 86,000 revisions now; the Apache Foundation's > Subversion repository has over a million revisions.
I think he means the process of dumping & loading the repository to move it around. If you did a weekly dump/load cycle on the ASF repository for the purpose of copying changes around like he's doing, I imagine it'd get slow.
