SVN/TortoiseSVN painfully slow

Question

I\'m experiencing painfully slow operations with one of our SVN repositories/projects.

For example, it\'s taking 5-10 minutes to revert the changes in one small file (10

Answer 1

I have some projects which use the Eclipse IDE. If you capture the Eclipse project directories you get hundreds and hundreds of tiny files which has the same effect for my project as you're suffering on yours.

I think that when you check files out SVN does so one at a time which means that projects with huge numbers of files are always going to be slow and there's not much you can do about it (aside from avoiding frequent whole-repository operations).

Making changes to a single file shouldn't be slow though.

You may try the suggestions in another post on Stack Overflow about slow SVN. It could also be due to using a BDB database.