Re: [lmi] Is our svn repository working?

[Greg Chicares]

On 2016-02-27 21:21, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 01:02:33 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:
[...savannah slowness update...]
> GC> Different Friday, same problem. Reported:
> GC>   https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?108973#comment4
> 
>  I don't think it's worth adding another comment there, but svn is
> extremely (to the point that I was completely certain it wasn't going to
> work at all) slow for me as well, it took ~25 minutes to commit 6 new
> revisions.

/lmi/mirror/lmi[0]$date --utc +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ'; time svn update

2016-02-27T21:30:21Z

Updating '.':

A    aclocal/ax_cxx_compile_stdcxx.m4

U    configure.ac

U    Makefile.am

Updated to revision 6514.

svn update  0.11s user 0.33s system 1% cpu 25.891 total


So I was able to retrieve them a blazing sixty times as fast as you
could commit them. Only because I was luckier. This worries me, because
we have a fixed release schedule and must not depend on a flaky server.

Suppose we convert lmi's public repository to git, so today's central
server becomes a "blessed repository". Then even if savannah goes down
for a long time, we could all simply fall back on 'git-send-email' and
'git-am' to stay in sync. What would have been a catastrophe becomes a
minor inconvenience, eh?