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[eclipse-dev] [ANN] Speed-up with the CVS plugin
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In the last integration build we added support for specifying separate
read and write
connection methods for a single CVS repository location. The motivation
was to allow
operations that require only read access to the repository to use a faster
connection
method while still allowing write operations to use the authenticated
connection.
The common use-case is to use an anonymous pserver for the read connection
and either
an 'ext' or 'extssh' connection as the write. This means that operations
where the authentication
overhead was longer than the time to transfer contents, there is a huge
responsiveness gain.
The areas where we have seen the most improvements are: browsing changes
via
the synchronize view, opening remote files, browsing a repository,
merging, and comparing.
Here are the steps for configuring a read connection for an existing 'ext'
or 'extssh'
connection:
1. Create a read repository location (e.g. for Eclipse developers create
an anonymous
pserver connection to dev.eclipse.org).
2. From the repositories view, select your existing 'ext' or 'extssh'
repository location
and open the properties page via the context menu.
3. Configure the read location for the connection method.
The current UI for creating/configuring read and write locations is pretty
weak, and we
will be working on improving this for 3.0. In the mean time you can
benefit from the
responsiveness gains now!
Cheers,
Jean-Michel
