svn server problems

[peter garshtja]

This morning svn+https failed, I switched to svn+http. I don't whether it
worked because I have had to leave.

On Sunday, March 8, 2015, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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