svn server problems

[Ian Lepore]

On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 21:44 -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > On Mar 7, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Brett Wynkoop <freebsd-arm at wynn.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Greeting-
> > 
> > So I have been trying since last night to svn up my source tree on the
> > BBone with no luck.  It seems to never complete and instead produces
> > the following error:
> > 
> > A    sys/gnu/dts/arm/zynq-zc702.dts
> > A    sys/gnu/dts/arm/imx31-bug.dts
> > A    sys/gnu/dts/arm/ste-href-ab8500.dtsi
> > svn: E120108: Error retrieving REPORT: The server unexpectedly closed
> > the connection.
> > 
> > Is anyone else seeing this issue?
> 
> Back when I did regular native build worlds, I saw this
> quite regularly.  I was always able to eventually complete
> an update, but it sometimes took many many iterations of:
> 
>    svnlite cleanup && svnlite up
> 
> before it could complete.
> 
> I suspect this is an artifact of SD performance:  SVN
> tries to keep a network connection open while its updating
> files locally and this leads to server timeouts.
> 
> I had better luck using git.  I think its update strategy
> does not require keeping a network connection open
> for such long periods of time.
> 
> Tim

I was able to checkout via svnlite to both a super-slow usb stick and to
a reasonably fast sdcard last night.  No hint of trouble.

-- Ian