Re: [PATCH] eglibc: use HTTP for svn checkout

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

On 12/14/2010 09:30 AM, Ryan D Phillips wrote:
> On 12/13/2010 2:00 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Ryan D Phillips
>> <ryan_d_phillips@dell.com> wrote:
>>> SVN over HTTP is a more reliable transport for developers behind
>>> restrictive
>>> proxies.
>>>
>>
>> and how much slower/faster is it when compared to svn protocol ?
>>
>
> The speed depends on which subversion client backend someone is using.
> HTTP will be slower than using the svn native protocol, but the serf
> subversion backend will perform parallel fetches.
>
> I would like to see this patch get into the OE tree to make the tree
> more robust to proxies. Currently, this is the only customization I need
> for the projects I work on.

Note that if you use a mirror site with the SVN checkout archive in it, 
you won't try and do the fetch at all.  This may or may not be 
applicable to your case.  For your case I think what we really want is a 
way to globally toggle the svn protocol argument.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation