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Re: Creating a subversion "tag change summary".

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On 4/16/12 5:54 PM, John B. Matthews wrote:
> In article<LpYir.88442$s82.47213@newsfe10.iad>,
>   Daniel Pitts<newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net>  wrote:
>
>> On 4/15/12 10:51 PM, John B. Matthews wrote:
>>> In article<HIHir.9015$YM2.6283@newsfe05.iad>,
>>>    Daniel Pitts<newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, I did find one way to speed things up. An "info" request
>>>> of the file on the tag is relatively fast, and includes the
>>>> "last change revision" of that file. I can then do a log of
>>>> that file on the trunk (Which is faster by magnitudes), and
>>>> anything after that revision can be considered a change after
>>>> that file was originally tagged.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I'm still open to any other advice on the matter.
>>>
>>> This reminds me of a project that had a particularly tangled
>>> per-directory access control configuration. You might look at
>>> the speed versus security tradeoff in "Disabling path-based
>>> checks."
>>>
>> I'm not sure I understand what you mean by that, but that does
>> remind me that our admins have prevented checkouts that don't
>> have "/branches/*/", "/tags/*/" or "/trunk/" in them. Not sure if
>> that is contributing to the problem or not.
>
> I'm not sure how they're enforcing it, but "Per-directory access
> control" is one way,  and "Disabling path-based checks" is one
> alternative, both discussed here:
>
> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.serverconfig.httpd.html#svn.serverconfig.httpd.authz.perdir>
>
> A symptom is that the time required to obtain older `info`
> increases (roughly) geometrically with age.
That actually seems to be a likely cause. I'm going to ask our admins to 
consider disabling path-based checks.

Thanks for the hint!

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Creating a subversion "tag change summary". Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-04-15 14:44 -0700
  Re: Creating a subversion "tag change summary". Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-04-15 15:11 -0700
    Re: Creating a subversion "tag change summary". "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-16 01:51 -0400
      Re: Creating a subversion "tag change summary". Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-04-16 10:12 -0700
        Re: Creating a subversion "tag change summary". "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-16 20:54 -0400
          Re: Creating a subversion "tag change summary". Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-04-17 09:25 -0700
  Re: Creating a subversion "tag change summary". Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2012-04-16 08:10 +0100
    Re: Creating a subversion "tag change summary". Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-04-16 10:16 -0700

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