Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] SVN compression.

On Jul 21, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Richard Quadling wrote:
> I'm sure you are all working really hard on this. And I thank you.
>
> The data coming from svn is currently sent uncompresssed. In fact,
> with the files being sent b64 encoded (with a small binary tag), the
> amount of data is significantly larger than the end result.
>
> Is this how it is going to be? Getting a new checkout is a BIG task.
> Would it be worth having the server build daily archives of the
> different modules to allow a side-step of the initial checkout/update?


I don't know whether archives would be any real use, but I've enabled  
mod_deflate in httpd for the repository, and I'm seeing 40% or better  
compression on almost every request. Should speed things up a bit :).

-- Gwynne