David Schweikert wrote on Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 08:00:54 +0200: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 19:15:15 +0100, Andreas Stieger wrote: > > > We are using Subversion 1.7.10 and the working copy is on NFS. Having it > > > on the local filesystem makes it faster, but I thought that it could be > > > even faster if it wouldn't traverse the whole tree. > > > > A usual solution for this is to have a working copy locally, and a > > post-commit hook that, in addition to the update, runs rsync to the slow > > exported file system, with the required options to exclude .svn and > > honouring mtime for detection of changes. > > That's finally exactly what I did to optimize the performance. Still, > rsync needs to walk the NFS tree, so it probably could be faster with the > knowledge of the changesets.
You could use 'svnlook tree' to construct an argument to rsync's '--filter' or '--files-from'.
