[Mifos-developer] new svn read-only mirror

[Adam Monsen]

We're experimenting with a new read-only mirror of our source code. If
you find the master to be too slow for read-only operations such as
obtaining history, staging a merge, and creating diffs, try using the
mirror directly and/or "relocating" your working copy the mirror.
Relocating is a reversible operation which takes a few seconds on modern
hardware.

Our master Subversion repository lives at SourceForge.net. The mirror is
hosted at ci.mifos.org. Here is the mirror repository URL:

svn://ci.mifos.org/mifos_mirror

The mirror is configured to pull from the master every hour. svnsync is
used to maintain the mirror.

Here's how to relocate a trunk working copy to the mirror:

svn switch --relocate \
https://mifos.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mifos/trunk \
svn://ci.mifos.org/mifos_mirror/trunk

Just swap the URLs to switch back to the master.

Another idea: do the initial checkout from the mirror, then relocate to
the master to perform commits.

I did some very non-scientific benchmarking and found "svn annotate" to
be ten times faster against the mirror.

[Adam Monsen]

> svn://ci.mifos.org/mifos_mirror

The mirror is running svn version 1.4.6, so it cannot be used for
merging. We plan to upgrade ci.mifos.org ("birch") early next month.

[Adam Monsen]

Note that the mirror repository URL has changed, the new URL is
http://ci.mifos.org/svn/mifos_mirror