Hi Greg.

I had heard very good things about Subversion before and gave it a quick look. Now you mentioned it I will try and play with it more seriously.

Thanks!

A little about how my company uses it. I work remotely (at home) and the svn server is in the main office. We use an apache server, with an ssl connection and apache authentication. It is very fast. Having previously used Visual Source Safe, there are a couple of things I really like about it. First, I like the copy-modify-merge paradigm better than the lock-modify-unlock paradigm. It's more flexible and easier to administer. Second, as compared to VSS, I really am liking branches, mainly because it is so easy to merge changes between branches. Third, it is fast. Using svn remotely is faster than using VSS was locally. Way faster.



If you are interested, the SVN book is very helpful:



http://svnbook.red-bean.com/



Also, I found this book very helpful:



Pragmatic Version Control

http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Version-Control-Subversion-Starter/dp/0977616657/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-1400485-3799855?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190304075&sr=8-1



If any of you have any questions I'll do my best to answer them!

I was anxiously waiting for you to say so!

... kidding, I will have a look at the links you provided and probably ask you latter.

Thanks Greg.

LOL



Anytime with any questions. No guarentee on the answers though....

Hey Greg.

It is time.

I have TortoiseSVN installed and everything went really fine during tests. I am also using VisualSVN integrated into Visual Studio. But then I created a Repository on one server and added an application to it, which has lots of files in many folders. Now, if I try to perform a SVN Checkout in another machine, it takes like forever. The same if I use the TortoiseSVN Repo-browser (if you are familiar to it). It takes almost 5 minutes just to list the Repository content.

Have you faced anything like this?

About time!







I'm using AnhkSVN for VS integeration. I haven't used VisualSVN...how is it?







Hmmm....nope I haven't. Initially, I used a server that was on local network and not surprisingly, it was blazing fast. Several months ago, I moved the server (with the repositories) to a server (beefed up work station really) that is remote, connecting to it with TCP. It is still blazing fast.



I'm using the apache server with authentication/encryption. I have about 3mb download speed with 512kb upload speed. The server has a big pipe, something like 10mb up/down.



I just did a speed test with my setup. I checked out my entire repository, which included the trunk and two branches through TortoiseSVN. Here are the results:



~42MB transfered

7900 Files

3:45 time to check out



Typically, I'd only checkout a single branch or the trunk, so it would only take a bit over a minute. Doing updates and commits usually takes seconds....about enough time to take a sip of my beverage of choice



Using the repo browser is fast, usually about a second to expand a any part of the tree.



So, my first guess would be that you have either a poor connection (maybe try drying out the string... )or maybe you're using the SVN server and it isn't as robust for remote connections. Or maybe something is hosed....



What is you setup?

Well, what I have tried looks nice. It shows a red, yellow or green dot besides everything telling you the current state of all files. You can right-click and choose whatever SVN action you would like to take. I hadn't heard of AnhSVN yet, but I would guess they are very similar.

Let's put it this way, if I did the same with the speeds I'm getting here, I would have a serious drinking problem by now...

I have installed Apache 2.2 to see if I could get it running with SVN on the server, but haven't been able to make them talk to each other properly up to now. Keep getting 301 errors everytime I try to Repro-browse the repository. One strange thing I have noticed browsing all these open source forums everywhere is that nobody ever gets t a solution post to any problem... or maybe I was just unlucky.

So, I'm still on a local environment, just trying to reach the server as a mapped driver. After what you've said, I'm sure I have done something wrong over here. If I create a new application it works as lightning. But once I try to add my existing app to the repository (and it does it fast), I can't seem to check it out in any other machine with at least a normal speed, and repo-browsing takes ages.

Just to let you know, I am going to try SourceVault as well. This one uses SQLServer as repository and sounds really good. Will let you know of my progress.

Thanks a lot Greg!!!  And how have you been?